Originally Posted by
Fanjet
Does anyone know if AA is setting up a crew base for pmAA employees at PHL? If a pmAA 757 will be taking over PHL-AMS, that 757 will have to be flown in from somewhere else with a pmAA crew, otherwise. Since there is only one flight to/from AMS in the system. For example, the pmUS 332 flying ORD-DUB is part of a PHL-DUB-ORD-DUB-PHL flight sequence. And the pmAA 763 flying PHL-ZRH is part of a JFK-ZRH-PHL-ZRH-JFK one.
I doubt pmAA is setting up a crew base at PHL for this flight (though of course I don't know for sure). PHL-AMS changes to pmAA on September 7. There will be one daily pmAA 757 (domestic configured) operating MIA-PHL and one daily pmAA 757 (TATL configured) operating BOS-PHL (this is presumably the metal that will operate PHL-AMS). The crew for PHL-AMS could operate inbound on either of these flights (possibly the day before they operate PHL-AMS to allow sufficient duty time)
The 757 BOS-PHL is pmUS operated until September 6, so the switch to pmAA TATL configured metal starting September 7 must be to supply the plane for PHL-AMS. The plane arrives PHL at 4:39pm, about two hours before PHL-AMS departs. The plane goes back to BOS from PHL (starting on September 8) at 3:35pm, two hours after the AMS-PHL plane arrives. The departure/arrival of this plane at BOS syncs perfectly with the timing of the BOS-CDG/CDG-BOS flight which is also a 757, so that appears to be the plane's rotation (though the crew may have a completely different rotation)
ETA: There's also a TATL pmAA 757 on one MIA-BOS, so AA can switch out the metal operating the TATL rotation if needed.