I mean panda distress makes me CI99 to the lav but do we really need an armed escort to take a smash?

I guess Memphis has a modicum of tourist appeal, but I think we’re in there to take people to places that appeal to everyone.

I've been in downtown MEMa couple times. Not terrible. Good BBQ and it's kinda nice along the river. There's a cool Bass Pro Shop built inside a pyramid. At one of my previous airlines they put us in the Sheraton.

Yup, Memphis is a great city.

https://www.actionnews5.com/2019/06/...hamber-leader/

If there ever were a city made for NK, MEM is it. We will kill it here...... It will also be a pilot base in 2022.

lol let’s just hope we don’t get killed there 😬

I think you will be ok…. Unless you do a hotel buy back and stay at a custom joint on airways blvd….. then you may get shot.


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specifically FO’s. Upgrades will stop soon if we lose any more FO’s. Allready reduced and slowed Captn upgrades by 39 percent

Convincing pilots to stay, especially FO’s has always been a challenge for management (excluding Covid years till now). They are adults, let them fix it. One would almost conclude that they need people to leave to maintain lower cost….. doesn’t make sense, but this is NK we are taking about.


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https://www.yahoo.com/news/away-bois...110000140.html

Maybe this is catching the eyes of Spirit?

BOI has plenty of gates and a growing transplant population with cash...

There will be no westward expansion until we do at least 500 daily departures out of Florida.

why do you think they are mutually exclusive?

Seems to me every city we expand to is out of Florida.

Because when you only have so many airplanes to deploy you deploy capacity where you think you can make the most money. The WT population in FL has barely been tapped.

Well…. Heard some different scuttle butt today out of the kremlin …. Seems like IAH and DEN will be announced soon.


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Spirit has 2 gates out of Denver. Good luck with that one

Yes, we would need more gates. Thanks for the insight.


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I wonder how many UNITED pilots will apply with our new IAH and DEN base. We welcome our future United pilot hires!

What’s United?


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ORD only had 2 gates and a hard stand for the longest time. It’s a sizable base now with a whopping total of…..4 gates. What’s your point?

I would imagine that more gates will be in the offing once the C terminal expansion is complete.

more gates currently in PHL, LAX,EWR, IAH, BWI, RSW, TPA then DEN. Looking forward to the DEN base 😂

A lot of commuters are looking forward to DEN.

mke commuter here. Where’s my mke base?

you are correct! Announcement is coming soon.

huge expansion just like MCO in the works for both IAH, and DEN.

IAH- crew base announcement “we will eventually grow to 120-130 captains/FO”

will start next bid period with 20 vacancies until reach capacity.

wants to not only compete with United on routes but hope that we slow pilot attrition to United. (See last email, vast majority of pilots go to United)

will be launching more international markets.

IAH-LIM (later date with A319neo)
IAH-BOG
IAH-MBJ

with a slew of domestic markets.

DEN-pretty much same story

DEN-CUN
DEN-MYR
DEN-OAK
DEN-PDX
DEN-CLT

forgot the coveted DEN/IAH - ACY

and DEN/IAH-LBE

LOL JK I didn’t hear that one yet.

Your best work in months.

We are doing that mx thing that’s not a thing but is a thing but can’t talk about a thing in IAH…

We are doing the hx thing that was a thing but won’t always be a thing. You can sometimes talk about it down there.

I hear we are taking over United’s Guam flights. Will Saipan be a high credit turn ?

You mean the thing that Ted was in DFw a couple weeks ago talking to the airport bod about?

Is hou/iah pilot base a real rumor?

yes and likely to be announced next week.

MIA also MIA is a big focus for management lately. I think it will be MIA and IAH or maybe MIA first, then IAH a month later. But, bottomline is that management wants more bases asap, we'll find out soon

mia will just be a co base. No reason for it not to be.

DEN has probably the most commuters in our system with well over 100 now.
Management wants bases where people want to live.
Basing pilots in DEN would eliminate scheduling from having to continually deal with commuting issues out of Denver.
New gates are coming.

Wasn't the word that the next base will be 'east coast'? I'm willing to bet there's more east coast commuters, ATL alone has a high number of FAs and Pilots. There was also that period right before the vid when recruiting brought on alot of DC area FAs.

Think of the worst possible base that’s being speculated about and that’s the next one.