Originally Posted by
SSlow
I think our aircraft are still underutilized. Quite a few airplanes are just sitting around in our larger bases it seems.
Inbound is 3 hours late coming in from LGA? No worries brah, there's a fresh NEO parked a few gates down just sitting there until tomorrow...
Pre-covid that was an anomaly
And this is purely operational. There isn’t a good reason why the aircraft we have cannot be utilized at the optimal level. Every reason for it leads right back to operational incompetence. It creates frustration among employees which creates massive turnover among other things and suboptimal utilization.