Originally Posted by
captnate702
Yep, exactly. They fly from A to B and back to A everyday. What you are proposing is flying from A to B to E sleep fly from E to W layover W to N sleep fly N to C to A (and that would be an easier routing for the legacy carriers).
You never answered my question: do you really think this scheduling team and management could run a legacy or Southwest type operation with 4-5 day trips without completely falling apart?
Don't be so dramatic. You and I both know it will be like the test runs. A-B-C-overnight-C-B-A. Sure it will run late but they'll schedule crews for 14 hours of rest, reduce it to 10, and the flights the next day will go on time.
Originally Posted by
310skying
we reset the entire operation every night, in every base. And even in March we have excess planes and pilots on tue, wed, and Sat to fly recovery flights that didn’t get done. Part of why we will never do overnights is our low utilization, they want to have the down days on tues and Sat to recover the op… if you have overnights that means you have to pay crews on non profitable days like Tuesdays
And yet every other US airline has figured out how to do overnights and fly planes around the clock. Amazing!
But no, allegiant has to find a "unique solution to match our unique business model. We're special".
The 737s will need a lot more utilization to pay for them. Look for a crew to do a 3 leg day to the west coast, overnight, a second crew takes the plane on a transcontinental redeye round trip, then the previous crew brings the plane back to the original base.