Originally Posted by
airb320
I feel for the NY based Pilots but the writing has been on the Wall for a while now!
Removal of that base will actually improve pairing construction for the rest of the bases, imo.
That would only be true if 1. VX route network stayed the same as it had always been (predominantly transon), 2. use S3RIUS for pairing construction, and 3. and not subject to AS's contractual rules for pairings and "fatigue mitigation rules"
None of those are true anymore going forward, so no the pairing construction is not going to get better. It's going to go down the drain, just look at Boeing pairings up/down the west coast. That's the Airbus future.
For those of us based at NYC, this news is pretty devastating no matter how much writing on the wall there is.