Originally Posted by
Nosmo King
One other thing about an ATL A330 base, and this is total guesswork, I looked at the flying originating and ending in ATL on the A330.
The Good:
HNL - year round
CDG - seasonal
FRA - seasonal, so far 2 months then gone for 2011
DUB - seasonal, so far 2 months
FCO - seasonal
BCN - seasonal
AMS - year round
The Bad and the Ugly:
ACC - seems to be full time A330
DKR - seasonal
ABV via DKR
ROB via DKR
LOS - Feb thru October then back to 777
To achieve full savings of opening a base, I assumed that all trips starting and/or ending in ATL to be flown by ATL based pilots. (I had to start somewhere) My personal criteria is that I not be at risk for any MED flying during PBS runs.
My conclusion is that I am going to let someone else bid ATL because the sheer amount of bad MED flying far outweighs the seasonal good stuff. Good news for you junior guys that want to bid it in ATL. I would rather have a bad commute than a bad destination.
Nosmo,
I think yours is a fair analysis -to a point. Mother D swaps flying around on the fleets pretty regularly, todays chocolate is tomorrow's vanilla.
The 330 is the 777 without the range and it is also the 764 with better cargo capacity.
ATL 330 will do cargo heavy and pax heavy 12 hour runs. That means deep south america, turkey, greece, rome, africa, etc.
It will be somewhat junior on the bottom 8-9000 and somewhat senior on the top end 2500-4000 in the FO seat depending on base fleet size. IMO.