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.
We were talking about AUS, not BOS. I stated that there won't be a pilot base there until the new terminal is built and we see what our gates assigned are. We are working on upping util rate in AUS as that's how they assign gates there. That's part of the reason you all on the NB fleets will see more connections running thru AUS in the future.
Will BOS get a NB based before? Maybe, maybe not. But if you don't think this air line isn't gunning for a large presence in AUS you'd be wrong. There's big plans for AUS coming down the road 5-7 years out