Do not mock the hamsters! They are hungry, and devour the posts of the nonbelievers. Fear the hamsters. The hamsters are watching you.
DAMN IT!
Try it again.
American Airlines laid out their plans to fire folks, get rid of aircraft, etc. In their plans, they laid out scheduling changes for their hub system, such that the hub system would no longer be heavily scheduled in the morning and evening rush hours, but spread through out the day. I saw it called “rolling hubs”.
The benefits they claim are longer layovers and more efficient use of the aircraft.
OK, the longer layover they are selling as now you don’t have to rush from one gate to another - I’ve missed a few connections, but I don’t think I’ll treasure my extra time at the terminal - so this is "put the best face on it"marketing.
What I really don’t get is how this is more efficient. If the key to efficiently using your capital asset is to have it in the air as much as possible working, wouldn’t this scheduling actually mean a plane will spend more time on the ground? And if this is so bloody efficient, why haven’t they done this before?
Airlines - constantly bringing you higher prices, worsening service and increased losses.
Without seeing the plan, I would guess that they’ll cut the number of planes, and possibly reduce short-hop flights. If they drop service from City A to City B, a flight which takes only an hour, and replace it with a flight from City A to City C, which takes 90 minutes, and have fewer total flights, it stands to reason that they’ll have to spread service out throughout the day to optimize the number of planes they would still have.