Originally Posted by
JulesWinfield
Houston doesn’t make sense for recovery purposes. It’s odd how close all of our bases are to each other, so it wouldn’t surprise me, but I would think something more north or west would make more sense.
The guy in charge of AA routing specifically is quoted as saying PHX is kept for this reason, among others. It offers them a lot of flexibility when the **** hits the fan in the rest of the country and allows them to recover during the winter months. Granted there are lots of places out west that would allow that, even LAS. However I would argue there is a reason two of the biggest airlines have bases in PHX.