Originally Posted by ObadiahDogberry

If no pilots would have taken the FLL base, then Norwegian would simply have not opened the FLL base. It was a tiny base, and ultimately inconsequential in Norwegian's operation.

It should be noted that the FLL pilots were not "outsourced" pilots, they were Norwegian pilots, included on the Norwegian Pilot Group (NPG) seniority list. They were also on the NAS certificate, not the NAI certificate, and that would not have mattered anyway as all NPG pilots were on one seniority list regardless of which certificate they operated under or to which based they were assigned. They were working under a U.S. based employment contract, just as the LGW pilots were working under a UK employment contract, the CDG pilots were working under a French contract, and the CPH pilots were working under a Danish employment contract. The guys on the NAI certificate were the 737 guys based in SWF and PVD.