Originally Posted by
ancman
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.
BOS 320 flying has far exceeded the threshold for a base/category for years. There are some months when BOS has nearly double the 320 departures than SEA. Word is the current excuse as to why they won't open the category is that the MAX will be flooding into BOS once it arrives (supposedly to the extent that a 73N category will be opened next year), not that anyone really believes it. Further adding to the hypocrisy was the statement they made in opening MSP 220 regarding departures and reserve staffing as BOS already exceeds those thresholds. Maybe MSP passengers are just more important?
What crew resources fails to understand/grasp is that the more people who drive to work, the more reliability they will gain (even though the CPOs supposedly did the study and presented the data to crew resources). God forbid we reduce some of the behemoth ATL NB categories in size to allow us staffing in places where we have a sizable presence.