While mistakes happen, and are sometimes costly (buying hedges high and selling them low, buying regionals for billions only to get rid of, taking a small loan from a regional during BK at an incredible price, building JB a billion dollar terminal in BOS at our expense and giving it to them for free allowing them to become the biggest airline in BOS history for decades, Song (lol), buying back stock high and issuing stock low, 9 figure open time coverage mishandling, “retention bonuses” that quickly become parachutes, etc) the cost of those would never be a credit with which to spend opening the wrong base (or the right base at the wrong time).

Every commuter wants a base where they live, but from the company’s POV that is a separate line item that needs to be justified and the only ones that might really know are marketing and even then they frequently don’t know because they make a lot of money being nimble and opening bases hinders that to a large degree.

Opening a base requires as close to certainty as there is in this industry. If there is even the slightest doubt, it’s almost always far superior to wait and spend on hotels as that cost is small by comparison.

That’s basically what I’ve said for a while on this thread. At least from Crew Resources’ perspective, countless factors must fall into place perfectly for an AUS pilot base (or any other new base) to ever open. Even with every factor lining up perfectly, they will still default to not opening a base if they think they can get away with it.

My point in the previous message was that they will spend years overanalyzing, trying to sharpshoot category costs, and usually getting it completely wrong anyway. Meanwhile, literally down the other end of the hall at the same department, they are recklessly throwing away greater amounts of money on a daily basis with nowhere near the same level of care.

They will focus on splitting hairs over whether the next AE should contain 11 CA vacancies or 12. At the same time, the “pod” concept and lack of any interest in managing scheduling effectively is tanking the operation and wasting hundreds of millions more. They consistently view the wrong things with a magnifying glass, and the right things with a blindfold. Some give way more credit to this management team, particularly Crew Resources, than is actually due.

I’m going to try and at least walk away with this win.. since BOS is technically “back” with the 330. The odds of the next new base being AUS, I think, is overwhelmingly the most probable post concourse B. Of course “if ever” thrown in there to satisfy those people.

I’d love to see a FL win for so many people. Perhaps there’s hopium to be had with NB fleet growth post 737Max10, more 321’s, 757’s slowly fading (fleet consolidation, albeit slow slow), and TPA concourse. But, proximity to ATL means we have so many overnighting crews all over FL just under an hour flight time away. Crew resources spoke to this as a deterrent to a FL base, but they are “always looking at it”.

We always knew you were a new hire making stuff up. It's okay dude, no need to cope.

Huh? I never claimed I wasn’t making stuff up. Are you that gullible :confused:

Thats a cute way of sidestepping your 40 pages of trolling and/or nonsense.

It was implied it was non sense.. Declarative statements with no source under anon and you were taking me seriously?? You think I have some insider plug? Like I said, way too gullible.

If it was statements about Delta being the best and making the most, those are objectively true. Pretty easy google search if you try it or take a anon’s word for - they seem more or less have the same validity to you apparently :D

I'm disappointed. While it's fun to rib at starry-eyed optimism, I was honestly/quietly rooting for you and your enthusiasm. To learn it was just passionless trolling is a bit of a downer.

Great post. I wonder how much down line sick calls and the ability to get flights covered affects decisions? There have been 330 pilots call out sick in BOS, by the time a spare pilot was sent to BOS, the other two pilots would time out. That has to add up over time. Now you need an additional 330 to go a day late…

who knows with these clowns.

It's loser behavior if we're being honest. Dude spent months and months jamming out posts and when he's finally exposed all he has is "haha you're gullible".

For what it's worth I don't think most people believed him from the start. But it is interesting seeing that there's people with nothing better to do whose idea of a good time is to lie and make stuff up for months and months in a random forum.