Originally Posted by
MinRest
Well, welcome to junior basing. OAK, BWI are junior for SWA, the New York 3 are junior for almost everyone who has bases there. UAL, DAL, and AAL run vacancies in almost every base, in multiple fleets, almost perpetually. That's how the airlines work. Junior things are junior because reasons. I am not sympathetic to the company AT ALL for having bases that are junior. They need to staff them right and grow them right. Alaska handles staffing, basing, and position bids unlike anyone else, and we seem to be the only ones with problems like this. Gee, I wonder why.
If anyone is pretending that SAN won't be another junior, understaffed, and problematic base on the FO side, they are insane...
If they keep it in the 150/seat range I’d guess SAN would stay pretty senior in both seats. The problem with SFO is they were trying to grow it to an unsustainable size while we were losing pilots daily to other carriers. 300 pilots/seat was never gonna happen. Hell 200/seat is pretty unsustainable in my opinion. If we had something other than a 737 in SFO that would change things drastically but then we’d be going head to head with United and you know how management feels about that.