Originally Posted by
RomeoHotel
I think that it is inevitable that someday we will see our crew staffing equitably spread throughput the U.S.
Someone posted the Boston Consulting Group analysis of crew resource management a while back and it discussed the future of cost savings and gains derived by future IT technology.
PBS is just the tip of the spear.
Each pilot on property has an economic cost and a potential level of productivity. If a commuter spends 8 hours commuting each week and 20 hours flying he/she is limiting their own potential productivity. If the company utilized IT (e.g. virtual bases) to harness some of the lost productivity it becomes an economic gain for the company without having to hire additional pilots...
For those old school thinkers just look at Uber vs. Yellow Cab...
It's pretty impressive to see what software can do....
I am not sure that you have ever looked at a map of where the population densities are. They are not "evenly spread" around the country. They are clumped around the southwest and northeast coasts.........ta DAH!!!!!! Approximately where UAL, DAL, and AMR have most of their hubs. With a few connecting hubs thrown in at various medium/large cities in the interior.
We are already there. Some pilots here just seem to think that the US and the world revolve around MCO and LAS, and that we should therefore have pilot bases there.
No VB's. The probability of having VD is much higher.
The end.