New bases at Continental

[EMBpilot]

Just flew a trip with a Flight Attendant who said that Mr. Kellner recently spoke to the new hire FA class and mentioned that CAL will open two new "satellite bases in DEN and LAX within 2 years".

Both for pilots and FA's.



An attempt to weaken and "divide and conquer" prior to starting negotiations?

What airplanes do you think will be there?

Thanks

 

[Palomino]

always makes me giggle when i hear the 'potential' for satellite bases.

probably just an effort to dupe flight attendants into PBS for bidding...convincing them that it would allow for satellite base provisions.

what a load of crap. PBS was supposed to allow the company to create scenarios involving satellite basing. it's a joke. a very bad joke.

btw: PBS sucks!

 

[seahorse]

Or maybe just further dupe them into staying for $18/hr!!

 

[F9 Driver]

:nuts:After they buy F9 there will be a good size base in Denver again!

The problem is I won't be able to hold it for 20 years

 

[Jetjockey]

They already bought a "frontier", you missed that boat.

 

[D-Bo]

:nuts:After they buy F9 there will be a good size base in Denver again!

The problem is I won't be able to hold it for 20 years

Wave bye bye to that left seat along with DEN if that ever happened. Is that the talk over there at Frontier? CAL buying you guys?

 

[j3ben]

I thought maybe LAX was going to be a MD-80 base, but then they took the sim out of the training center. Oh well!

 

[F9 Driver]

Wave bye bye to that left seat along with DEN if that ever happened. Is that the talk over there at Frontier? CAL buying you guys?

Nope - but any rumor is a good rumor

Jetjocky, No I didn't miss the first Frontier getting gobbled up by the Lorenzo machine. Not something I'd be proud of if I were you.

 

[ATRCA]

Come on.....been rumors (insert wishfull thinking) about DEN/LAX for years at CAL. Just people hoping that talking about it might make it true one day.

 

[EWR_FO]

Come on.....been rumors (insert wishfull thinking) about DEN/LAX for years at CAL. Just people hoping that talking about it might make it true one day.

Gordon Bethune supposedly said, "We put bases where most of the people live (meaning passengers, not employees) look at a map, it's not west of the Mississippi."

I wouldn't hold my breath on any new bases anytime soon.

 

[IAHERJ]

Larry discussed this with my new hire class in 05. He said that it was something they were looking into but that he knew that if they opened a base in LAX again, people would just commute to it like they commute to all the other bases. Heck I'd like to see a 757/767 base out in LAX myself. I'd commute to it from AUS it I had any seniority(which I probably wouldn't). Take these rumors(especially from CEO visits to FA classes) with a grain of salt. Hope for the best but plan on IAH/CLE/EWR/GUM for the rest of your career and you won't be dissapointed.

IAHERJ

 

[tie1on]

who ever started this rumor is smoking crack. cal gave up the west for a reason. no-one knows why but a base west of houston is out of the question.
management thinks that everyone lives east of houston. so why not give up one third of the population on bad judgement. southwest only makes money on the west coast. alaska airlines makes money on the west coast.

so what gives. a short sighted management team that only thinks short term like their tenure athe airline

 

[BID]

We recently had a 777 instructor in the J/S, he too felt a LAX base would happen within 2 years.

I thought our management was going to look at satellite bases in the spring, once PBS was up and running for a couple of months? Did that ever happen? (I hate PBS! )
From what I understand, we still have long term gate leases in LAX. In fact, I think CAL along with other airlines are suing LAX because the airport is trying to regain control of them. Delta is adding flights in the west with an increase of flying into Latin America. If CAL is to compete they will have to return to the West.

I also read an article about CAL increasing the number of mechanics at DEN. We have a hangar there and we lease it to Frontier. Frontier wants more space, but at this time (well about two months ago) we were leasing it to Frontier on a month to month basis.

Satellite base in LAX and DEN? All rumors, but I like these rumors! Hey it is the airline industry, bases come and go.

 

[list2002]

That's a fat worm... some biters.

 

[mach none]

Frontier? I thought you were buying Alaska...

 

[Captain X]

cal gave up the west for a reason. no-one knows why but a base west of houston is out of the question.

It's spelled L-O-R-E-N-Z-O.

 

[SKLJ]

Lax

Larry came to my class, this year, and said that he anticipated announcing the opening of an LAX pilot and FA base by November. There wasn't anyone in our class holding our breath, but it was nice to hear.

 

[V-STALL]

They did open a base out on the west coast- it's called Express Jet! :laugh:

 

[ATRCA]

They did open a base out on the west coast- it's called Express Jet! :laugh:

If your gonna take that spin then technically its 2 bases out west.......LAX and ONT.......

 

[SimHo]

Right from the horses mouth.
Larry was on my jump seat about 3 months ago and said ”satellite bases will open as soon as we get PBS figured out so the problems with new bases will not be blamed on PBS” I said, so you are saying they will NEVER happen. He just smiled.

 

[pkober]

I have a friend who told me his uncle's sister's dog walker's garbage man's best buddy from the Army said that he saw Larry walking his old girlfriend's dog and cat and yelled the question about new bases to him while he was driving by in an ice cream truck and Larry signalled that he should text message him about that topic and in his text message Larry said we are opening bases in TEB and ICT.

 

[Scrapdog]

I have a friend who told me his uncle's sister's dog walker's garbage man's best buddy from the Army said that he saw Larry walking his old girlfriend's dog and cat and yelled the question about new bases to him while he was driving by in an ice cream truck and Larry signalled that he should text message him about that topic and in his text message Larry said we are opening bases in TEB and ICT.

That's funny...I just heard Larry say the other day, they're going to take the 737-500's and put PW-229's on 'em, 6 AMRAAM's, and 2 JDAM.

Forget winglets!

Instructordude will be in the initial cadre of IP's of course.