And that's never going to change for many very obvious reasons. Perhaps they should take that reality into account before deciding on misleading spreadsheets about how much hotel costs they are going to save by cramming 30 pounds of reality into a 3 pound sack.

If you wanna play big in NYC, you have to accept massive percentages of commuters. Short calls aren't always in base either, because they too still have to get to base during IROPS. Maybe they should consider flowing a little more flying through other bases so they have crews there when the inevitable and highly frequent NYC IROP happens.