Originally Posted by WhiteMorpheus

If we open another base, this will repeat itself. Staffing a new base will bring down times while flying gets moved around. Opening a new base has multiple purposes, one purpose would be to allow additional growth/flying as we add more planes this year. Hopefully most of the flying in the new base would be new lines, not lines stolen from other bases.

If PHL is selected as our next base, I think it will go fairly junior. Those already living in the PHL area are more likely to have gone to Piedmont (or Air Whisky) making most of our PHL pilots commuters. It's pretty convenient for those in the NE, though. It's also a good settling point for those planning to go to mainline, aside from it being in Pennsylvania (at least while they've got the E190 flying).

I could see ORF going more senior and stealing pilots from DCA without much new flying to be had there (maybe the same lines that would have been PHL).