Originally Posted by
Big E 757
Hahaha. The only base that is mostly unwelcoming to the shorter trips.
To be fare when the company opened these NY bases they put out a lot of info on why they opened them and what the need was. It was driven by a desire to have in base pilots to cover the early departures and late arrivals and reserves for the NYC weather issues among other things. The company put out this would drive a shorter trip mix and low commutability. Prior to having the bases we had real reliability issues from the NYC airports. It improved dramatically with the opening of the bases and NY went from one of our poor performing hubs to a great success story.