Originally Posted by
Delta2heavy
What exactly is going on with dtw 330 especially on the b side
It was the biggest base and I know they want to put all the new 330 neos in Seattle and msp but why did they want to shrink it by 90 crews? 30 left without back fill this time but they have said they will displace if they don’t get 90
Have the routes changed? I know dtw-gru is done next year but anything else? Seems strange that you would Shrink a base with 35 planes on order.
Maybe more 350 flying will come to dtw eventually swapping from 330?
NYC is the largest base by departures for the 330 and has been for years. Some of the DTW flying is DH or laying over in NYC as well as ATL crews coming to NY. They need far more crews in NYC than DTW yet DTW is the larger base by far. They simply have the crews in the wrong place and our trying to migrate them the cheapest way possible.
Just the two ATH and two TLV flights this summer will take all the Captains they currently have in the base to fly. That leaves AMS, CDG, GRU. LOS, LHR(2), MXP, FCO, ZRH, LAX and BCN without crews. Take a look at all the bases and the amount of NYC flying they do. NYC hugely undermanned for the 330.