A ‘base’ is a very large word as far as an airline goes. They can vary between an aircraft that night stops and crew position in to the airport, to a location where there are staff permanently located that cover operations/crewing and engineering to varying degrees. Locations like Doncaster that have an annual variation of aircraft night stopping/seasonal operations are naturally smaller with fewer staff. Crews will come from where there is availability both in the numbers and appropriate type ratings, same for CC, and can be seconded/deployed away from their home base for periods of time. WZZUK base at DSA used crews whose primary ‘bases’ were at other airports, so no redundancies from the base due to redeployment back to original or alternate locations.
Nick Fletcher getting the PM’s support and raising it in PM’s question time with the new Transport Secretary won’t have done any harm today.
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And the signatures online now in excess of 103,000 with several thousand hard copy signatures to add.