Originally Posted by
Hotel Kilo
Rippin has a point.
We are doing quite a bit of pax connections now thru AUS. That's so we insure we get the number of gates we want there. Bergstrom AUS airport assigns gates based on utilization. We are upping that by connecting thru AUS. Expect that to increase.
This is a precursor to a base. Will AUS be a pilot base. Yes. But not until after the new terminal is completed and we see how many gates the airport authority gives us. We are doing what we can to crank up the utilization rate there.
Meanwhile BOS still doesn’t have a NB pilot base despite having hub status AND more gates than AUS’s best case scenario for many years.
You’ve been here long enough to understand this management team’s philosophy toward pilot basing. If a pilot base isn’t an absolute, overdue necessity (it won’t be), then a base won’t exist. If Flight Ops can’t get a firm commitment from Network to focus a specific fleet in AUS (they won’t), then a base won’t exist. If there’s any significant hiccup in the economy and/or industry (there will be), then a base (or even a hub) won’t exist.