If I may....When Southern aquired the 146 they relied heavily on NJS for training and maintenance. The availability of that resourse must have saved a considerable amount of expense in spite of the sluggish transition. If NJS were to aquire 717's why would QF not see fit to put those 717's on the Impulse AOC initially and have the NJS pilots trained under the Impulse Check and Training program until such time as NJS had built enough operating experience to introduce the 717 on to their AOC with a minimum of fuss. Sending an NJS pilot overseas for five weeks is no different to sending Joe Bloggs. There would be a small balloon in the ranks required to cover the 146 flying for a short period until the 717's started to replace the 146. I just don't see how it is that much cheaper or otherwise to keep the 717 out of the NJS fleet.