Originally Posted by
Skipness One Foxtrot
Have they never considered (a return to!) small UK bases now they have an all A320 short haul fleet with aircraft night stopping at BHD/GLA/EDI/ABZ/NCL every day? Would allow a small pool of pilots to work outside of LHR and without the stress of London living?
With the caveat that I don’t have insider info anymore - that might make some sense if the above stations had their own maybe small route network, with crews working days ending at a regional base (which I think might have been the case many decades ago) but BA are firmly London centric.
The situation ATM is all nightstops lead back to London in the AM, and then for the crews to do often at least one more round trip finishing the day at (maybe) LHR..so BA probably see it as being cheaper in terms of support costs and better in terms of rostering/crew utilization to suck up stuff like hotel costs in the regions for a nightstop than having to support regional bases….