Swa bna?
03-13-2018, 06:59 AM
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The rumor of a BNA base has been around since before I got hired in 1994. During my NH training when the VP of Schedule Planning came to talk to us one of the things that he said was that BNA would never be a crew base. His reasoning was that SWA could originate an aircraft on the East Coast and have it in BNA in time to be an originator. Therefore there wouldn't be enough originators for a SWA base. So far for over 23 years he has been correct.
03-13-2018, 08:22 AM
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The rumor of a BNA base has been around since before I got hired in 1994. During my NH training when the VP of Schedule Planning came to talk to us one of the things that he said was that BNA would never be a crew base. His reasoning was that SWA could originate an aircraft on the East Coast and have it in BNA in time to be an originator. Therefore there wouldn't be enough originators for a SWA base. So far for over 23 years he has been correct.
BNA has all the right ingredients for a Crew base, but I don’t see it happening without significant growth in our flying to/from there.
Hotel costs are some of the highest in the country and we overnight a lot of planes there, but the flying there and pretty much everywhere in the central US has been stagnant. We aren’t adding cities or flights there other than piecemeal here and there adding and subtracting.
As for STL, it may as well be a base. The hotel costs there are low, though, so the cost to overnight tons of crews there isn’t as high. It’s a great airport for connectors and through flights. I would be interested in moving there if it ever did open.
With the flight attendants “testing” satellite bases for us, I could see going down that path for either one of those stations.
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