ORIGINAL: Flyfalcons
I think it's around 168 right now, of which 20 or so are 70 seaters. Lexington, Portland, Raleigh, and LaGarbage are some examples of one gate leading to multiple aircraft on the ramp. In the morning they are all parked there and the gate usually doesn't have the release yet, so they get word from Ops on which aircraft we're supposed to take. Most of the time they are right but sometimes the paperwork comes out with a different tail number. This is just another example on how the media will report on some minor issue as if it has uncovered some major system-wide flaw.
No kidding....... I've also had them change tail numbers on me AFTER I preflighted the one originally assigned. Nothing like sitting there, wondering where the rest of the crew is 20 minutes beofre push! [X(]
How long have you been over there? I fly with a few ex Comair guys.........
Don't get me started on the media. If they are as inaccurate about the things I know nothing about as they are about aviation related things, then it is all BS. They rarely get it right.
BTW, I got hired at Comair in 1988. I was at Bar Harbor, flying 99s and 1900s out of Naples, and Comair wanted to send me to CVG to fly Bandits for the same money, so I passed and got furloughed 2 months later........