I'm just going off of it being our two "closest" hubs and we don't open pilot bases ever. (I know JFK is technically barely closer than MSP from DTW, but both are midwest, culturally closer together)

When have we ever done things that make sense beyond the next fiscal cycle?

Also, there is some company-union politics that factor in. When you add a new base, it's a new/reactivated council, which adds more seats to the MEC, and think of MEC like the Senate. If you are Party X, you don't want to give statehood to a territory that will usually side with Party Y.

Right now, if something is good for ATL, they have 1/4 the votes in the MEC. Not too hard of an uphill battle.

Lets just say I wouldn't be 100% shocked if their best guess as to who would be the BOS LEC was part of their decision to not open BOS. I also think getting rid of a LEC that was the support base for the MEC Chair was part of the decision to close CVG as a pilot base. What they saved on office space/staff is probably 70% spent on hotels for overnighting crews.