Originally Posted by
flyguy81
This place has a hard on for staffing bases based on RON aircraft. Makes absolutely no sense to me. My bet would be MCI…bit further from MDW and STL and we can pretty much do whatever we want at that airport.
When you have an APL of 2.85, yes it does. That’s the crust of it. The higher number of RON’s gives the ability to stay in the 2.85. They could forgo a new base all together but that would cause more DH’s and rig trips. No APL would lead to the majority of the pairings being four days if the CBA didn’t have guard rails. The changes that the company has made to the network really put wrench in how pairings are built efficiently for a p2p network. Whatever base they pick will likely have a very high number of locals living there already.