Things in the Sky

Well, that’s at least how I view yesterday’s announcement saying that AirTran will open a crew base there in April, which will have 50 pilots and at least 50 flight attendants. AirTran has been calling MKE a hub for awhile, but opening up a base while having “line maintenance station, regional human resources, sales and community relations staff” shows that the airline is serious about the market.

Speaking of AirTran in Milwaukee, the airline slipped in a nice little dig at Midwest in a recent presentation – when AirTran was showing its Milwaukee route map, it called itself “Milwaukee’s largest mainline carrier,” now that all of Midwest’s 717s have left the fleet and been replaced with Republic E-Jets. It should be noted, though, that AirTran’s partnership with SkyWest out of Milwaukee has already begun.