Originally Posted by
Jetskipper
Similar to LAS, MCO and CLE, crew base doesn’t mean hub. It just means there are enough flights to justify the crew base staffing expenses over the cost of hotels.
I don't have hard numbers and this is just my gut speaking, but as has been mentioned above the company may have opened MCO and LAS partially because it helps keep the captain training pipeline filled. Adding SEA back could be more of the same.