Originally Posted by
pabely
Based aircraft are obviously what is needed doing 6-8 sectors a day so proper full time jobs can be generated. The odd flight through the week from Europe is of little use and will not plug the losses.
Why are based aircraft needed? From a local crew jobs perspective yes, but from an airport operator perspective if the same or similar levels of activity were achieved with non-based units what is the difference? The latter may be preferable, as someone else points out it’s likely to require reduced hours so more efficient use of staff. All hypothetical of course.
Southampton for example doesn’t have any ‘proper’ based units and all it’s 23 flights today were within a 12 hour window.