Has Spirit actually decreased daily departures out of the domiciles affected by the displacement bid? Or are these domiciles just “stockpile” bases where lots of pilots are based, but most trips leave the base and then fly around the system for a few days before returning?

In other words - was the cause of the displacement bid a genuine reduction in operations at the domiciles, or just to “right-size” the bases in keeping with the new philosophy of more turns and two-day trips?

Frontier closed their Chicago base, but they had been reducing the amount of daily departures for quite a while, so it wasn’t really a massive shock to anyone who had been paying attention.