Originally Posted by
skitheline
This got me thinking… Spirit has the X and Y list, essentially allowing their pilots to pick up broken trips in a “spirit city”. Allows commuters to pick up some open time from where they live and provided a bit of flexibility for scheduling to cover a last minute snafu. Is there a reason we don’t have a similar provision here and all premium trips seem to need to start in a base? Spirit pilots found value in it and it was a hugely popular contractual provision among commuters and in base pilots alike.
that seems like it would heavily disincentivize new bases if we could do this.
For this reason I’m fine with keeping the requirement that trips must start and end in a base. If they want the ability to recover trips from a city, have a pilot base there.