Originally Posted by MasterOfPuppets;[url=tel:4019714
4019714]the real reason is because United needed Captains and no one wanted the job in our current bases because our reserve rules were horrendous. So United looked where United pilots lived and opened bases. We would have had more if we didn’t sign the new contract.
but yes the enticing of Spirit and Frontier pilots was an added bonus.
I haven’t paid attention to either, but has the same attrition happened at the LAS base? They opened both at the same time for supposedly the same reason. All I’ve ever heard is how wildly profitable (or cost saving?) MCO is, and that LAS isn’t. Has that base shrunk too?
Also heard the two were opened as a work around to the virtual pilot bases when that conversation was going around, and that these two were a way around the push back the VPB’s caused.