Originally Posted by
GoCats67
The Crew Resources guy was on the ORD townhall today and showed the same slides that were used at the Standards Meeting. It showed the MCO/TPA base as shrinking on the slide but then he said he thinks that is actually not reality, but that it would not be growing anytime soon, so pilots will likely be replaced as they take bids or retire, but just wouldn't see any growth in the total at the base.
All effort in 2026 is going to be to grow in ORD, DEN and IAH as much as possible. Especially in ORD now that we got 5 more gates. Any growth in other bases with NB planes will only be to support flying out of those 3 hubs and the other massive growth will be 787 flying increasing in LAX, SFO and ORD. Whatever their plans were to distribute flying has changed to trying to get some fortress mid continent hubs and more Pacific flying.
Once the E gates in Dulles open they will probably build that up, but that's not supposed to be done until late 2026. I would like to see that 40,000 sf United Club there. The current one is pretty bad.
Everything else isn't a priority apparently.