Originally Posted by gloopy

Your POV would be outstandingly accurate…if…pilot bases were a massive, almost primary, reason for the profit disparity you mention. I don’t think that’s a reasonable overall all take.

Instead I think it’s 99.7812% hub build outs including a main hub in the most efficient airport in the galaxy, AmEx, MRO, Trainer (hoping to trigger ppl with that one but it’s true regardless), HVC rewards, the overall network, and yes even customer service, jaded pilot IROP comments notwithstanding, etc. Us not having a NB base in BOS is not what keeps us from mirroring the numbers you mentioned. I hope you don’t actually believe that and were just being facetious.

FWIW the 0.2188% that marginal pilot basing (yes my math adds up) has little to do with overall profits, but if a base makes sense, that small percentage would be higher than the present position. I think more than enough flying is or will soon be there for one or two NB bases there. Even when you allow for some nimble close in marketing moves.

The argument of not that long ago used to be “but they’d have to have a CP and V-files!!!” But that argument actually made a little more sense than “we can’t have any base closer to existing bases if less profitable airlines have bases that close to their other bases.”

Unless you’re saying that if we had a BOS NB base last year it would have lost us 6B lol.