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- In article mumble mumble driscoll@src.honeywell.com (Kevin Driscoll) writes:
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- KH>With these cancellations, it is suspected that the bases will not be
- KH>built, and NWA will fly their planes to Europe for C/D checks. Of
- KH>course, they already have received and spent the operating loan....
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- RD> It'll be interesting to see what ramifications this has on the UAL deal:
- RD>> did United plan on using Airbus/NWA North American facilities?
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- KD> A local (Minneapolis) TV story said that NWA is considering other
- KD> airlines' use of the facilities in deciding when/if to build.
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- I seem to recall that at the time of the United announcement, the
- Minneapolis Star-Tribune business section specifically addressed the
- issue of whether United would use NWA's proposed Airbus bases in
- Minnesota. I recall a United spokesperson saying that United planned to
- do their own maintenance.
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- NWA has always held out the possibility of contracting out to other
- airlines as the economic justification for the security of the state
- taxpayer's money. America West is one possibility. Airlines in Canada
- are another. (Heck - they might even think northern Minnesota is warm!!
- :^|) It was only in the recent announcement that I heard that they also
- planned to maintain some of their Boeing planes in these new bases. I
- don't know what this means, since they seem to have adequate facilities
- at MSP for their existing equipment. Maybe that land has more value as
- something else (like more gates...).
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- Ken
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