Originally Posted by
Noisecanceller
Grow SFL? Where the labor force moves in slow motion and the wx always sucks and all roads lead through JAX center? GENIUS!!
My guess is also much of the flying in the other bases will remain to a large extent but then be integrated into FLL pairings. Even more genius. What the hell was the point of opening EWR?
The current staffing levels at this airline make no sense. FLL has about 3,000 montly departures while DTW/EWR/ORD/IAH/DFW/ATL each have around 1,000, so 3x the departures. Yet FLL has almost 5x more pilots than each of these bases. MCO has about 2,000 departures a month but has 2.5x more pilots than those bases. It seems that the direction they want to go is move all the pilots to Florida (and some in Vegas) and have them overnight in our other "focus cities". Makes a lot of sense when a Florida crew is stuck due to weather, and the LGA turn out of DTW was built into one of their trips.