Originally Posted by Dunkin

There is a difference in outstation crew bases and hub bases when it comes to departure requirements that make the crew base financially viable, the cost of having a crew base in TYS is way less than DFW with the same amount of departures.....I was told by a VP that we needed around 40-50 departures a day out of a hub for it to make sense to be a crew base but believe what you want. We overnight 5 (4 7/9s and 1 200) planes a night in TYS, that's at least 10 crews that would need hotels (19 rooms) which they don't have to spend $ on. CLT, DCA, and PHL have enough departures that we need reserves there and currently DFW does not. Not all crew bases serve the same purpose.