Originally Posted by
rmcbear08
Any insight as to why? On the webcast today they kept talking about “recapturing the California market.” Seems counterintuitive to then close a base in a major California city. Why not just keep it with 73s? Closing SFO is the biggest head-scratcher to me, but then again I don’t have access to all the information.
CA is important to AS, it is vital to our OneWorld strategy. SFO is tricky, simply put many small bases have a significant cost in staffing. Small bases in particular have huge cost in over manning and RSV coverage. We want to have the most productive pilot group in the industry, they feel we get there with fewer bases.