Originally Posted by
sailingfun
RDU is seasonal, flight attendants can fly any equipment so seasonal changes can be accommodated. The situation with pilots is quite different so I am surprised you are trying to make a comparison. I think SFO was closed. The cost to the company is not having a CP and staff it’s the training issues involved in equipment changes. Displacements, paid moves ect.. get expensive. That does not even get into the reserve issue but ask a VB based flight attendant about it if you want a earful!
Those costs are only incurred if the company chooses to close or displace from the new categories, just like any other category in our current system. There are plenty of small categories throughout the system right now. From a cost perspective, these new bases would be nothing more than another set of small categories.
It all requires a paradigm shift away from the old way of thinking within Flight Ops management. They would first need to acknowledge the need to make Delta more appealing to future new hires. I don’t see it happening with the current group.