Originally Posted by tsquare

Why is it that whenever there is an IROPS situation, that skeds will split, no op, change or otherwise mangle rotations and then deadhead an ATL pilot on the front AND back end to cover those rotations when they could easily be done with an in-base pilot? (Sorry for the run-on) It seems that in the last couple of days, there were (for example) a trip that had one leg from BOS-JFK that was staffed from ATL. Unless something has changed, we have practically hourly service from NY to BOS, and since JFK was the goal of the coverage, skeds just bypassed common sense and went straight to panic mode and covered it our of ATL. It really kind of sucks because with a very cursory look at a few randomly chosen days through August, I found MSP trips, JFK trips and even a SEA Westpac trip that were covered by ATL. Do we have any scheduling oversight here, or is this acceptable? ALPA????