It is certainly an interesting pull down of other bases to open AUS. Of the 338 initial pilots in AUS, 192 will be cut from Houston and 58 from Dallas. So, 75% of the AUS pilots will come from these two bases.

I have only been here for three new bases. However, I don’t remember any of the previous pull downs being that heavy. This is particularly strange when Houston has 10 new gates opening in the summer of 2027.
It would be interesting to see the algorithms used to come to these numbers.