Originally Posted by
bohicagain
Are 10 of the 16 LAX-SFO?
At compass we had
day 1.. Between 3-4 legs to get to LAX
day 2 and 3 ...LAX shuttle 5 legs a day
day 4 work your way back to DTW.
It was worth 28 hour 4 day
So if you have 2 jets at different times leave DTW it can be done
Looks like 8 per day to SFO and back. Could be done with 2 jets, but it's spread over 15 or 16 hours, so you'd need 4 crews for one day's operation.
LAS and PDX have 4 and 3 per day, respectively, and could be done with 1 plane each, but would need 2 crews per day each due to max duty day. So that's 4 jets per day and 8 crews per day to operate, roughly.
For the same time period they only have the one 717 flight inbound to LAX from LAS via SLC and points east. None into PDX or SFO. So there's 7 more crews to pre-position each day. Unless they add more flights to one of the spoke cities, the only way to do that is deadhead from DTW, ATL or NYC, and that's the better part of a day, so figure two days DH on a 5 day rotation to the west coast... like I said, good deal for commuters!