If Al Gore is right, you won’t see an Eskimo anywhere! :p

Closing the base is ridiculous, but for an airline that lives it’s life with its eyes closed I expect nothing less.

Curious, is there anything to stop them right now from giving a 90 day notice to close the JFK base (eg, 60 CAs 60 FOs) and open a SEA320 as 60 CAs, 60 FOs, before the SLI comes out? I wonder if they close JFK where the openings are created and in what numbers.

Count on a SEA 320 base announcement coincident with the JFK closure announcement imo. Silver lining - it'll be before the sli rebuttal testimony.

A bid should post mid to late May displacement JFK openings SFO 18CA and LAX 35CA apx #’s... still crunching

I am pretty sure no SEA 320 base. I believe the company would, might, will open only with a 737 SFO base. They hate opening bases as it costs money. Right now they are confident in the power of 4 day trips... they have to pay for an overnight somewhere, may as well be SEA and SFO.

Base closures? Remember the ANC MD base? They opened and bid it. Paid people's moving expenses since it was a new base INCLUDING shipping two cars to ANC.

The Russia flying was cancelled while the pilots were still in training, but since the base was opened they had to keep it open for 6 months or they would have had to buy everyone's houses that moved up. They still had to pay moving expenses for everyone who got displaced from the base. Two times $15K for every pilot who moved.

They kept it open 6 months and one day. 10 crews, 4 lines, one two day pairing: ANC-SEA-SMF, layover, SMF-SEA-ANC.

Never put even the most ridiculous base opening/closing decision past them.

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Worst case scenario I was hoping they would open a 737 JFK base. JFK is a very senior base, with its closure other bases will be effected. Time to update my apps

It’s posted:

JFK base closed August 31st....

How many times have I made stuff up?
You all laughed and made fun of Me... AJ telling me to read the contract and that obviously I was an idiot.

I am very sorry to those affected. I really was only trying to help and give you a heads up.

I think that is why this board is so screwed up you tell the truth and all the children cuss you out.

I don’t doubt what you say, but if your airbus info is correct we are all screwed. That is stagnation for a long time. “Come to Alaska, where we will never shrink and surely never grow”

A mixed fleet could continue indefinitely, or we may quickly return to a single fleet type, depending on many variables, all of which are being worked out right now. Rest assured though, if the economy begins to struggle at all, we will quickly move to zero growth and a single fleet type.

I would say the safe money is placed on a return to a single 737 fleet type over the next 6-10 years.