AA Bubbas,
Semi quick questions for you. What is the difference between a satellite base and home base? I understand the SFO Home base is closing, any informed guesses as to why it failed? Roughly how many crews staffed it before closure was decided (I see on the Size of Each Hub thread it currently has 36 crews). Was it 737 only?
Reason I ask is allegedly UA mgmt approached our MEC a year ago and was interested in establishing either satellite or home bases. Our MEC rejected the idea outright because it would 'abrogate' seniority. I'm pretty skeptical of that explanation and our MEC has kept it awfully quiet so far as I can tell. Compared to your contract, there doesn't seem to be any provision for home/satellite bases in ours. I was just wondering what your experience with it was and whether it was popular with the crews while it lasted. Thanks much for any tidbits.