Originally Posted by
CAirBear
I understand this. These bases are also much larger, therefore, making far more sense. I’ve been based in bigger huh bases, at other airlines, that never overnighted outside crews.
Again, they seem to care about saving money here. Eliminating outside crew overnights, at a ridiculously/insanely small domicile, that could easily be covered by all ACY based guys, would be a start.
The moral of the story (for everyone that asks) is ACY can close and be served, by outside crews overnighting, with ZERO issues. Who knows if/what BWI would do to ACY. For whatever reason powers at be seem to love it so I would not be shocked at all if it never closes.
Thats what the pairing optimizer does. It saves money. It takes into account the CBA, FARs, where we have domiciles, hotel costs, and aircraft mx flow. Having ACY crews doing certain flights could easily push the cost over on something more than simply hotels.
Our network schedule changes each month because we are a growing airline. This changes the overall flying in the system which is why flying moves in and out of bases. Say we add one flight from ACY to XYZ and one from LAS to XYZ this month. They can’t just put those flights in the domicile they originate at. They run the pairing optimizer and it reshuffles the entire deck for the lowest cost. The lowest network cost could very well be the ACY crew doing the LAS flight and the LAS crew doing the ACY flight.