Originally Posted by
RogAir
One theory? Let's say there were 100 DPs in the past and 95 of them got flown by independent operators/stupid people for 3 months straight. Those 95 now become part of the bidpack (the crappy lines you are now referencing). Now we have only 5 DPs, which will soon be flown by same types as before, and they will enter the bidpack in 3 months, thus making the lines even crappier.
I'm a MD guy, so I can't speak for other airframes, but the last time I noticed the same DP (regardless of how it was flown, reserve/vto/greed) in 3 consecutive months was many years ago. VCP-SJU-MEM or MEM-STN-CDG I think. Point being, how does the current process fix a bad pairing that is not a routine pairing? That's where we are now.