Originally Posted by
AS Flyer
There are crews on the ground in BOS that can be shuffled as they deadhead crews in from other locations to cover them. They could easily send a crew to BOS from ORD to work a BOS flight, as an example. It happens from time to time when things go awry on the east coast.
Either way, they have to fly other people into BOS and it is not like those people instantly appear if they are deadheading to the East Coast. The basic fact is that BOS is a very small station in the realm of things for AS and they are not going to have a lot of extra people hanging around nor should passengers expect there to be. If there were a problem in ORD, there are going to be a lot more people on the West Coast that could make it there in just a little more time that it would from Boston trying to locate and deadhead an entire crew on another carrier. It is not like just one flight attendant is missing--it would be a whole crew. They could also just cancel another flight from BOS and move people to other flights but anyway you slice it, the operational disruption is going to much greater than if it happened on the West Coast.