Gotcha … That’s one cheap move

How many bases have closed in recent history. Is it just ORD?

MKE closed in '13 or '14 which coincided with opening MDW/ORD.

DFW opening May of 2023, according to the wives.

Not to say another base won't close or to defend the closing of Chicago but.....

MKE and then Chicago bases were a result of the (ancient history for most our pilots) tie up with MidWest Express and Republic.

Indigo had nothing to do with the creation of those domiciles.

when is PDX and SEA?

We fly out of Chicago more today than we did when we had a base there. It doesn’t matter when or who started the flying. We still base Inflight crews there. It was and still is utter BS that we shut down the base, and the way in which it was done.

Personally, I think there is way more going on behind the scenes that precipitated this base closure and the silence about it is deafening.

I heard a certain VP said, "It didn't make business sense (to shut down ORD)".

I don’t think that our current CBA has any language in it about a dual-airport base. I’ve searched a lot and haven’t found it. Which leads me to believe that that is possibly the real reason they closed when they shifted ops to MDW. Maybe the company said they wanted to start doing dual bases in PHL/TTN, MIA/FLL, and MDW/ORD, but ALPA wasn’t interested. Ok, fine, then we’ll just shut it down and displace in order to easily staff up ATL, if we are going to displace anyway. This is the only reason that actually makes sense in context, and it also explains why not a single person has been willing to actually tell the pilots whose lives were upended what actually happened.

CHI closure was definitely from anger and/or spite. They’ll pay for that for a long time, but in the end it’s the pilots living there that will suffer the most.