Originally Posted by
flyallnite
It's really stalled out in DTW, hasn't it... opening a new base can't improve things there. I have to think that CVG is dwindling... maybe an 88/90 base in DTW?
Solid source then on the LAX 777 base... I'll bet a few of the very top guys put in papers if they can't do the DH to SYD trips anymore...
Displacements on the DTW777 then??
Well, we aren't getting any more 777's so that time has to come from somewhere. Right now, DTW doesn't have a single non-DH departure for their 777 category, BUT... the 747's are going away, and a lot of their departures are out of DTW, so they might keep the DTW 777 base to back fill the 747 trips as they are parked.
ATL still has about 50% of it's 777 trips that start as DH to somewhere else, like LAX, to fly SYD, NRT and now PVG, so there might be some ATL displacements if they open LAX 777. BUT, I seriously doubt you'll see a single 777 Captain 'put in his papers' if they do open an LAX 777 base. Anyone who was going to do that would have done it a few months ago, when they were offered 36 weeks of pay to go out early. The 777 guys still here are here for life.