Originally Posted by
Moonbeam
Maybe they could just do TDY’s like other airlines do. I don’t understand what’s going on at SWA, they are becoming a hub and spoke airline, but only in Denver? Passengers in Denver don’t like early morning flights but they do in other bases and cities? Can only man red eyes from the east? Crew planning displaces out of Denver yet somehow has 100 more first officers then Captains? Something is amiss.
we have a lack of airplane problem. They are trying to squeeze juice from a turd so added red-eyes. Those planes have to come from somewhere. Instead of overnighting in a base, they’re flying to the east coast. Nobody has an issue with that. What people are ****ed about is that because the RON plane is working instead of resting, they think they need to shrink the base where the plane was overnighting.
There’s prob a dozen things they could’ve done before kicking people out of their base to do a multiple time zone commute…but they don’t care.
Hiring, more airframes, red eye reserve might help fix things…they should also make redeye pairings more efficient than a 2 leg 3 day that doesn’t beat the rig.
Someone told me they heard a rumor the company wants several more bases in high hotel cost cities….floating a Frontier/Allegiant model with mostly day trips. Hope it’s BS, because people would lose their ****.