Originally Posted by
hercretired
money. they can open a base in San Francisco but it will cost too much money or would not make sense from the money standpoint.
money prevents them.
ORD was too expensive, in all likelihood, and they got a favorable reception by MDW airport
the greenest airline is all about the money. Their money.
and that, you can, uh, take to the bank
That doesn’t explain why you would close the pilot base vs move it down the street the same time as the FA base was moved.
Now if the need to staff ATL immediately was a concern to fill slots and justify the new base that’s a plausible story. But nothing of the sort was mentioned at the time. It came at the same time as the second Covid wave and section 19s so the rumor and possible truth of BB getting angry makes more sense in this case.