Kitty Hawk and 737's in SE AK?

[ILStoMinimums]

Just today I heard from a buddy who JSed with a very senior AS CA, he said that Kitty Hawk bought about 10-15 737-300's and is having some outfit in Israel fit them with cargo doors, they then plan on competing with AS throughout SE Alaska. I know this sounds pretty steep, any opinions out there?

AS needs to get their act together quick if they want to keep the combi thing going!

 

[Singlecoil]

Actually, Alaska is hiring Kitty Hawk to operate the mail contract it just won in Southeast Alaska. They did buy some 737-300's with cargo doors. That mod didn't work for Alaska because they wanted a combi, the 300 cargo door STC isn't certified as a combi, just a straight freighter. Alaska is chartering them until they can get their fleet figured out and can operate the contract themselves.

 

[ILStoMinimums]

OK I see, sounded like Kitty Hawk was jumping in to compete with them. I heard that AS bought a -300 to get the same conversion, but have to stand in line to get that done........

 

[Singlecoil]

No, they were talking about getting 300's but that fell through. Latest rumor is that they are cutting cargo doors in 6 of their 400's.