Somewhere between these last two post lies the "real" truth.
Startup or Non-Sked, it's all the same world.
The dizzying manner in which money is being spent at Focus (from what I hear) gives me pause. Bounces in a 74 that is just sitting on the ramp in KMIA sounds pretty expensive to me. I heard that everyone there gets a laptop computer and they just went and issued larger ones because the first ones were too small. Something to do with the EFB requirements or was it just convenience?
Maybe Focus does have the rumoured $2.5+ B CASH available. That's a lot of green to run some ex-Atlas -200/-300's, (yes I know, those pax -400's are just around the corner!) Sounds implausable to me, but I might be wrong. We'll see. Time will tell.
I wish the best of luck to us all!