What airports stop and make you think The airline is NUTS for having a base here?
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OttoPilot13
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Every UAL hub
SurferLucas
Southern Gentleman
When I was at QX, they opened Medford, Oregon as a crew base…a CAT I airport, in a mountainous valley that’s susceptible to inversion fog.
The determining factor for the base there was “we have 3 aircraft that layover there”, which we did in Eugene as well (and is a CAT III airport).
Numerous times over the years, they had issues with crews being out of position due to adverse weather. One particular year, there was a week of inversion fog, and they had to bus crews in/out.
The determining factor for the base there was “we have 3 aircraft that layover there”, which we did in Eugene as well (and is a CAT III airport).
Numerous times over the years, they had issues with crews being out of position due to adverse weather. One particular year, there was a week of inversion fog, and they had to bus crews in/out.
I take it some weeks DX was like just overnight them in base and do it at noon tomorrow
CrashesDrones
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Every NYC airport.
SoaringHills
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MDW… rain or snow, you get performance hits and are at times heavily restricted.
rogerthatbravo
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Lol my fav part about MFR, is IN N out is near the airport lol
Forget what Frank Lorenzo did to the unions he should have been banned from all aviation for choosing to have IAH as a HUB.
Summer + Texas by the coastline = don’t fly just drive you will actually make it to your destination on time
gopherdx
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Super lucrative though, when things are smooth and on time.
757Geek
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Having dispatched in and out of IAH for 8 years, I feel like I’m qualified to say it’s a pretty good hub. The storms move through pretty quick and it’s very rare they ever go into a GDP. Usually a 2-3 hour GS does the trick then they open the floodgates and let everyone in. Pretty efficient.
EWR and SFO are the ones I always scratch my head and wonder about.
DEN? EWR is actually the best N90 airport imo. JFK and LGA are too congested. PHL is essentially 2 RWY op
Bananabusdx
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SDF for YV and YX
DEN is good but when you get rolling storms off the mountains everyone dives into COS like its Normandy, JFK can handle congestion fine except when taxi outs are 40 planes deep. EWR is the WORST airport for N90 due to traffic management and overall ground congestion.
ZapBrannigan
If it ain’t a Boeing, I’m not going. No choice.
MDW in the winter is no fun from the window seats up front. 
Htown19
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Several major hubs are CAT I only. Phoenix and Miami come to mind. The difference is Chicago gets low vis more than those two
And it's not even 200-1/2 CAT I.
That said, there are often significant revenue opportunities from flying into operationally challenging airports, since they tend to have less competition. Risk vs. reward.
PHX ground stopped for being below
1 mins the other morning. Southwest and America West have hubs there Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro
