ChiefNWA From United States of America, joined Aug 2008, 63 posts, RR: 0 Reply 2, posted (4 years 5 months 16 hours ago) and read 1941 times:
Im not sure if their is a maintenance base there or not. But, there are three daily flights to CKB. Weird thing is that NWA.com cant seem to find anything. http://flightaware.com/live/airport/KCKB
Im sure someone else on here has some more info. But this is all that I could find.
PSU.DTW.SCE From United States of America, joined Jan 2002, 6868 posts, RR: 29 Reply 3, posted (4 years 5 months 16 hours ago) and read 1918 times:
Only reason I noticed it was that on the flight information displays in DTW tonight it listed an Arrival from CKB so I looked it up on Flightware and noticed the following.
I just found it interesting that there were a number of CRJ's in and out of CKB over the past week or more.
WingnutMN From United States of America, joined Jan 2004, 586 posts, RR: 0 Reply 5, posted (4 years 5 months 16 hours ago) and read 1873 times:
They go there for a heavy mx check. I'm not sure what one, but I have flown 3 planes there myself from MSP. We have a contractor there who oversees all of our mx. Last time I was there, there were 3-4 Indy Air CRJ's getting prepped for a trip to a new home in the Middle East.
Wingnut
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Nwaesc From United States of America, joined Aug 2007, 3324 posts, RR: 9 Reply 7, posted (4 years 5 months 15 hours ago) and read 1852 times:
They do send planes there for MTX. They do this for unscheduled MTX as well (depending on the problem) as we have had at least one plane from my city go straight to CKB for repair
"Nothing ever happens here, " I said. "I just wait."
PSU.DTW.SCE From United States of America, joined Jan 2002, 6868 posts, RR: 29 Reply 9, posted (4 years 5 months 12 hours ago) and read 1709 times:
Thanks for the info.
Its interesting that it showed up like a normal flight on the gate displays.
Also, I noticed that the 9E CRJ that was involved in the collision with the DL tug a few weeks ago is still sitting over by the NW hanger on the west side of 4R/22L. Doesn't appear to be going anywhere fast.
Flyinryan99 From United States of America, joined Feb 2001, 1919 posts, RR: 11 Reply 10, posted (4 years 5 months 3 hours ago) and read 1626 times:
I'll have to see if I can find the pictures of CKB. I traveled there quite a few times and would routinely see DL painted CRJs and also some Midwest painted CRJs down there.
USPIT10L From United States of America, joined Mar 2006, 3265 posts, RR: 8 Reply 11, posted (4 years 5 months 2 hours ago) and read 1577 times:
Quoting Flyinryan99 (Reply 10): I wonder if the USA3000 was a charter for WVU.
Yeah, that probably was a fan charter to CLT for the bowl game. The team flew down yesterday on DL from PIT, IINM. They've been flying DL for over five years now, usually widebodies for the New Year's Day games.
Apodino From United States of America, joined Apr 2005, 3638 posts, RR: 6 Reply 12, posted (4 years 5 months 1 hour ago) and read 1546 times:
As has been mentioned, WVAC is located on the airport, and they do heavy mx for CRJ's, so a lot of companies send CRJ's there for heavy checks. AWAC will still send one there on occasion for unscheduled repairs, but for the most part, AWAC switched vendors, and is now using ExcelTech in YUL for most of the Heavy MX.
AFAIK, they don't do paint jobs at the airport. GLH is a common destination for new paint.
KaiGywer From United States of America, joined Oct 2003, 12026 posts, RR: 43 Reply 13, posted (4 years 4 months 4 weeks 1 day 16 hours ago) and read 1385 times:
Quoting PSU.DTW.SCE (Reply 9): Its interesting that it showed up like a normal flight on the gate displays.
I think the gate displays might be run off the same system as the OTZERO, which would explain it. When the Vikings were playing Jacksonville a few weeks ago, the inbound charter from JAX was showing up as well.
KcrwFlyer From United States of America, joined May 2004, 3629 posts, RR: 7 Reply 14, posted (4 years 4 months 4 weeks 1 day 16 hours ago) and read 1363 times:
Quoting Flyinryan99 (Reply 10): wonder if the USA3000 was a charter for WVU.
CKB was sponsoring some chartered daytrips to New York ( I think ) in an attempt to get their boardings above 10,000 this year to make them elgible for some more money.
PSU.DTW.SCE From United States of America, joined Jan 2002, 6868 posts, RR: 29 Reply 15, posted (4 years 4 months 4 weeks 1 day 15 hours ago) and read 1327 times:
Quoting KaiGywer (Reply 13): I think the gate displays might be run off the same system as the OTZERO, which would explain it. When the Vikings were playing Jacksonville a few weeks ago, the inbound charter from JAX was showing up as well.
It seems whenever a ferry, repositioning, or charter flight departs or arrives at a gate in the terminal that is shows up on the gate displays.
In Oct, the NW A320 charter for the U of M football team headed to SCE was listed on the gate displays.
A few weeks ago I was in MSP, and misconnected to the last scheduled DTW flight of the day. There was a repo flight at 2am to DTW that was listed on the gate displays, unfortunetely they weren't taking any pax.
NWAESC From United States of America, joined Aug 2007, 3324 posts, RR: 9 Reply 16, posted (4 years 4 months 4 weeks 1 day 9 hours ago) and read 1236 times:
Quoting KaiGywer (Reply 13): I think the gate displays might be run off the same system as the OTZERO,
I'd never thought of that! How odd...
In my city, the monitors are somehow tied to the OAG. No idea how that works, but the Airport staff made quite an effort to trumpet that to all of us.
We still change the gates & status, BTW...
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