Why is United mainline shopping for ATR-72's?

[John Pennekamp]

Delta owns some of our ATR's.

Delta doesn't "own" any of them. All 12 are leased. And I believe ASA holds the leases.

 

[Cpt Oveur]

Actually, ship 640, 641, 642, and 643 are owned by Delta, the rest are leased. Can't find out definitively by who.

 

[jmreii]

United "mainline" is shopping for planes to outsource to the lowest bidder. I hope you don't think they ever thought, for one second, they would fly them at the mainline.

United will outsource the jobs along with the aircraft, what an economical plan. It's all about the benjamins.

 

[eaglefly]

Source?

I thought ORD was "done" with turboprops, even after the Dornier was outrunning the jets down low?

A high-capacity turboprop makes more business sense on those ATW/SPI/PIA/FWA/SBN/etc routes...

No carrier has ever operated Dorniers at ORD.

Been there 20 years and never saw one once......................ever.

 

[Paladin]

No carrier has ever operated Dorniers at ORD.

Been there 20 years and never saw one once......................ever.

Apparently you were drunk from 99-2002 (approx) because AWI flew the Dornier 328 out of ORD every day. I flew on one in the summer of 2000 to SBN. No APU, hot as HELL. I hope, for your sake, that your post was not serious...the Dorks were hard to miss.

 

[AWACoff]

Gosh, I happen to remember flying 400 hours of 328 time out of ORD when it was a crew base at Air Wisconsin for the Dornier 328. There happens to be pictures of the 328 at ORD on that airline picture website that everyone is always posting from. I think we can all agree that there has never been any E-120s flying out of ORD.........ever.

 

[siucavflight]

No carrier has ever operated Dorniers at ORD.

Been there 20 years and never saw one once......................ever.

Didnt AWI fly them in and out for a few years in the late 90s?

 

[catIIIc]

Gosh, I happen to remember flying 400 hours of 328 time out of ORD when it was a crew base at Air Wisconsin for the Dornier 328. There happens to be pictures of the 328 at ORD on that airline picture website that everyone is always posting from. I think we can all agree that there has never been any E-120s flying out of ORD.........ever.

I think you were kidding but Great Lakes flew EMB-120's out of ORD for years and Beech 1900's.

 

[BoilerUP]

Looks a lot like ORD to me...

 

[WSurf]

Maybe there wasn't any Dash 8's flying out of ORD... never... ever... hardly ever!!!