Originally Posted by
sailingfun
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.
when did we not have an NYC base? Also there is no reason we can’t use the crews that lay over there to cover early AM departures or build 3-5 day trips that are commutable on at least one end. Unsure if true or not but I thought the NYC base trips went to crap in 2018. FWIW from those I’ve talked to at UA, B6 and AA their NYC base trips are not nearly as awful as ours.