StewGuy86
Senior
I just saw the Most Junior F/A Lineholder info for October on The Hub. Just as I figured, with the exception of PIT...which has lost hub status....the crew base most affected by the loss of flying time resulting from the aircraft that are being returned is CLT.
The hire date of the most junior non-LODO lineholder for Sept. in CLT is 1-11-88 and for PHL it's 8-10-89. For October, those dates drop to 6-29-87 for CLT and only 6-5-89 for PHL.
Why does the hub with far more mainline flights have less time to begin with and why does it lose more in this scenario? And who decides which crew base gets how much flying? Seems to me the largest hub would be a more efficient and logical place for the largest crew base. If someone can explain this to me, I'd certainly appreciate it. And don't tell me it's because of the Int'l flying out of PHL. Before the fence came down and Transatlantic was a separate division, the domestic PHL base was quite a bit larger than the CLT domestic base.
The hire date of the most junior non-LODO lineholder for Sept. in CLT is 1-11-88 and for PHL it's 8-10-89. For October, those dates drop to 6-29-87 for CLT and only 6-5-89 for PHL.
Why does the hub with far more mainline flights have less time to begin with and why does it lose more in this scenario? And who decides which crew base gets how much flying? Seems to me the largest hub would be a more efficient and logical place for the largest crew base. If someone can explain this to me, I'd certainly appreciate it. And don't tell me it's because of the Int'l flying out of PHL. Before the fence came down and Transatlantic was a separate division, the domestic PHL base was quite a bit larger than the CLT domestic base.