Well he hadn't been there a year, but after all he WAS the rumor guy before I took over, and you know those rumor guys. Ya can't trust 'em!
I know that that 800 paid better than the 200s in FL, due to the reduced rates just to open MCO as a base.
It was definitely in late 2000, since I was flying in and out of IAD in the CRJ and I talked to him in one of those Moon Buggies they have for trams at Dulles.