New Southwest Domicile - ATL

[redflyer65]

Delta already flew to Europe

Bye Bye---General Lee

Haha. Barely. The hypocrisy from the Gen is off the charts.

 

[chris69]

CM mentioned the small size of the base will let them test the concept of, dare I say, small/mini domiciles; my interpretation. Good to see ATL, was hoping for BNA. Better yet AUS or SAT. One can only dream. Maybe if the small domicile concept works we will see all of the above.

 

[Tripower455]

CM mentioned the small size of the base will let them test the concept of, dare I say, small/mini domiciles; my interpretation. Good to see ATL, was hoping for BNA. Better yet AUS or SAT. One can only dream. Maybe if the small domicile concept works we will see all of the above.

The mini domiciles are coming right after the ipads and glass in the 300s....

 

[SWAdude]

Aaaaand again.

Why would anyone other than an AT/SWA pilot give a rats ass about our company opening up a new base.

Stop......feeding.....the......Troll.....

It is destroying all of the good dialog.

 

[Tripower455]

Aaaaand again.

Why would anyone other than an AT/SWA pilot give a rats ass about our company opening up a new base.

Stop......feeding.....the......Troll.....

It is destroying all of the good dialog.

Starting a topic about (or even mentioning) SW is all the troll needs to start nibbling.......

You'd think after 16k posts in a few short years, that she'd get over her insane jealousy of all things SW.

 

[fam62c]

It would seem that one big advantage SW has is that all the crews fly the same planes. Would it not be possible to think outside of the box when it comes to crew basing? Do a survey to find out where most people live and where they would want to fly from. Take any SW city that has some number of RON's (5 or more, whatever) and if there is enough interest from the local crews build biddable lines from these bases. Do your RON's in cities that are not popular places to live and let people be domiciled where they want to live. For example, cut an unpopular base like OAK down to the size where enough people would want it and put the rest of the overnight crews in hotels there. Then make biddable pairings from places like TPA, BNA, STL or wherever there are locals who want to fly from home.

It seems like SW is always messing around with the size of bases anyway so why not give people more choices of where to live? It would be great for QOL, living in base is a huge perk, good for the crews and good for the company. It seems that it would at least be worth a well constructed survey and a study by some creative people with the skills to make a new system work. Where there are open minds there are always possibilities, just because something has always been done one way in this industry doesn't mean that it can't be done another way.

 

[slaquer5]

We'll just let the arbitrator decide. Not going to get into a tit for tat with anyone about it. Had enough of that this week.

Merry Christmas to ya'! :beer:

What kind of tit do you have for premo tat. ?

 

[DUBLINFLYER]

The best international flying is done in 1st. class sipping Champagne or if you prefer Bellini’s

 

[HA25]

The best international flying is done in 1st. class sipping Champagne or if you prefer Bellini’s

That's one thing I'll never miss about working at Gemini and Evergreen.... business class travel all over the world on airlines where service was still a priority! But yeah, international long haul can be a pain...

 

[tankerhead]

gosh. I think i'll bid atlanta capt just because i can.

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