New FA crew bases - satellite bases MCO, PHX and SAN
#46
Join Date: Dec 2010
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It costs a lot of money to have a full crew base, so the airline has to weigh how much it would cost in hotels vs. having a crew base there. My old regional use to overnight a ton of crews in one very expensive city. We really wanted them open a base there, but they wouldn't because it was cheaper to pay for hotels then to open a base. Eventually they opened a base in that city, because it eventually just made economic sense as the number of flights to there skyrocketed.
#47
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Pretend for a second that the confusion as to what the flight attendant was referring hasn't already been clarified... SAN lacks the airfield capacity and United doesn't have the real estate to develop a full-fledged hub operation. Still, SAN is one of the few non-hub markets where United is the largest legacy carrier (consistently #2 to WN), so there's at least some merit to the notion that United has the kind of base at SAN that could theoretically support some non-hub flying.
#48
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https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/unit...rew-bases.html
Is this in addition to those announce in the fall?
Is this in addition to those announce in the fall?
#49
Join Date: Jul 2012
Location: Chicago
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Pretend for a second that the confusion as to what the flight attendant was referring hasn't already been clarified... SAN lacks the airfield capacity and United doesn't have the real estate to develop a full-fledged hub operation. Still, SAN is one of the few non-hub markets where United is the largest legacy carrier (consistently #2 to WN), so there's at least some merit to the notion that United has the kind of base at SAN that could theoretically support some non-hub flying.