Originally Posted by skypine27

Yes, leaving the base in CAN would have been far, far better than making it HKG. People who wanted to could still choose to live in HKG, because of the 100 mile rule. And, we would have avoided the 8 to 10 day hub-turn pairings. Now, the pairing never starts over because you never return to your base. Ie, CAN is your hub, but HKG is your base. Kind of funny, since there is not actually one single flight that you operate in or out of your base.

Brilliant move on the company's part. Kind of hard to drop/move/trade 8 day parings vs 2 day ones.