Originally Posted by flyallnite

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 from LAS via SLC and points east. 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!