No news stories yet, but several aviation blogs and other sources reporting that Expressjet just today has filed for a dormancy waiver with the DOT for their operating certificate and has already purchased an ex-JAL 777-200 that they wish to add to the cert. It’s speculated this will be a charter outfit like Omni using that reactivated cert…
Interesting. From feeder airline, to Aha!, to…long haul wide body charter operator? Makes me wonder if someone who wanted to start up an airline…