Originally Posted by
El Guapo
So if GUM closes you think the company is just gonna be eating a ton of 7:45 DH's back and forth from HNL to position crews on both sides of every pairing? No way. There's no way they could get everyone where they need to be by starting and ending everyone via the hopper.
Eating those DH's is much much cheaper than having a small domicile on the other side of the Earth that only supports 14 flights per day. Only 11 of those flights are 737. And some of those 11 aren't profitable.