Originally Posted by
DarkSideMoon
There’s some tie in though. To make it economically viable it generally needs to be a city with a decent amount of overnighting crews and/or enough connectivity that they can inject reserves into the system. That tends to lend itself to the same sort of cities that we hub for passengers but it doesn’t have to be.
Crew Bases do not need connectivity…. What you need is a lot of RONs requires a lot of hotels and a ton of flights to hubs, bonus points if the station is a MX base.That’s what your outstation crew bases look like. Hence is why MCO/TPA makes sense with the sheer volume of flights from both TPA/MCO to hubs. LAS makes sense with the large volume of flights to hubs. Other good candidates would be BOS, PHX, and SEA.
You staff the base to the appropriate size for the volume of flights….