Originally Posted by
Probe
Concur with Lerxt, and especially APC. Never, in any part of your career, choose a base or aircraft based on a single trip, or count on what they do staying the same. By the time you get there, the trips have changed, or changed to a different aircraft, or worse, the base closes.
This.
UAL has an entire department, and they are actually running the show, that measures every potential city pair with a micrometer and changes aircraft size and frequency on a constant basis trying to extract every possible nickel of revenue. As a result nothing is static and flight ops, along with the rest of the airline, is in a constant crisis trying to keep up with the "plan."
A current example: there is a fundamental shift in aircraft routing methodology coming down the pike that will change many of the trips on the 737 and the 320 starting in January exclusive of marketing's shenanigans. The trips that you see today do not reflect what you will see in the spring.