You're absolutely right.

And it really makes no sense to not have the 190 based in any of the cities served by the Shuttle.

That is just begging for reliability issues. You can't just call out a reserve if a crewmember gets sick or runs out of duty time in the middle of a trip. And then there is the added expense of having to RON so many crews in expensive cities, and having to schedule so many long RON's to protect the morning schedule in the event of inbound delays the night before.

Of course, all of that was spelled out to Parker when he announced he was closing the LUS BOS and LGA domiciles.

But as we all know, he is never wrong.

And didn't both LAA and LUS hand over all of their SJU and Caribbean flying to JetBlue several years ago? So why would they suddenly want to compete with them?