There are people voting here that arent part of Silvers pilot group.

People who live in base arent automatically indifferent if Hub basing threatens their base.

People who live in a hub now may still want real hub basing so they can have a line not just reserve...

The parameters of this poll may warp the outcome...

 

I think we all know where I stand on this issue!

 

Recommend new parameters and I will work with the Moderators to make some adjustments.

 

I don't think that kind of poll would exist here.

You could change the options to say (not a silver employee but wanted to see the votes)

 

If you are from an out-station base and want to live there it's awesome. If not, it sucks. There is no reasonable way to commute to most out stations. The vast majority of pilots commute. Especially pilots early in their careers. Silver is not going to be able to recruit pilots outside of Florida with their current system in today's hiring environment. If Silver wants to remain a small Florida/Bahamas operation then the current basing will probably work for them. If they have any desire to grow outside of Florida then they better get the Gulfstream stank off of them and act like a real airline. I'm not saying that every pilot has to be based in a mega-hub, but they at least have to base pilots in places with reasonable options for commuting. For example, I don't think everyone in the northeast would have to be based in IAD, but they should at least be based in places like CLE, BUF, PIT, DTW, etc.

 

Where's the vote for home base and they commute you, THEN they would understand; none of this "who else flys out of Duj because we are broke? Ummm.... NetJets. Hang on I'm going to see if we can deadhead you on them..... Never mind they are too much! Can you drive?"

 

The vote is not for your preference, it's merely an opinion poll. Although, the NetJets deadhead story is a classic

 

While I'm a huge supporter of hub basing, it won't happen any time soon. Our northern ops is funded by EAS which in turn controls the flight schedule to/from the out stations. You need a flight out early enough to catch the morning bank of departures out of the hub, and an evening flight late enough to allow people to connect from the evening bank of arrivals at the hub. The only way I see it working (with new rest rules nonetheless) is overnighting 2 crews or standup overnights. I'm curious how Colgan did bit, any of you guys care to chime in?

 

pkb, ckb, aoo and bkw and shd went back and forth between stand ups and overnighting 2 crews, at one time jst and bkw were pilot bases and ckb and pkb were flight attendant bases. way back in the day shd and aoo were beech bases.

 

Didn't you guys also service SHD nonstop out of LGA?