The reason they cite for not opening the BOS 320 or 330 base is "training churn" - because it's a new base, anyone can bid it, even with a seat lock. So they'll need excess training capacity in order to open another base.... and as you can see from our hiring, I can't see that happening anytime soon.

Which is why they “open” the base with a whopping 25 positions, then wait the requisite # of days (can’t remember if it’s 60 or 90), then post the bulk of the positions in the category that is no longer “new” (and thus doesn’t break a seat lock). Minimizes the churn bigly.

While true, current AE postings do NOT seem to be quickly following due to overall churn, which brings us back to now. Small AE’s logically seem rational, for logistics, training planning, just overall. But NO, we are an Air Line….. so we must not make sense of what we do, because this is how it’s evidently done. I’m with you, but precedent says “nah”..

What seems rational (start a small A330SLC and A320BOS) makes complete sense, but some number cruncher sees a penny that’s will cost a dime to get.

“Top Men” are rumoring SLC330 on the upcoming AE in May

I was down in ATL last week…the “Top Men” said they are still evaluating it. 5 years of evaluation isn’t enough, after all. #sarcasmentirepost

Spoke to a chief last week in ATL about something unrelated and he kindly dropped that Austin was going to be a base if Covid didn’t happen. Love the teasing.

At SLC base meeting, Bob essentially said the initial 330 opening would be small. 30-40 crews. Then proceeded to say the future base right now could be close to 100. Kind of going off what Fangs said.

Not that are ever that honest with us, FWIW lol

Now that COVID has created increased growth in AUS it makes sense that we would leave it alone. AA and SWA are better equipped to handle the volume. The best we can do there is have KLM helping with the AMS flights.

Yesterday we planned on offering free beer tomorrow.

A huge chunk of that AA AUS flying is on RJs…

A huge chunk of our AUS flying is...wait we don't have a huge chunk :rolleyes: