Originally Posted by
higney85
You are aware that pilots are involved in the pairings right? Many days were spent TRYING to create better pairings. November was horrible. You can thank DL and the random "junk" that needs to be flown.
We need more pilots (DTW CA's for certain).
That's the best that could be created without 3200+ DH's for an extra 5 minutes of block per duty productivity. It will be ugly until Jan-Feb. I'm all for "burn the house down" but sometimes when life gives you lemons, you need to buy vodka.
Off topics but...
Who is building these horrible trips? Talk about circadian rhythm nightmare. What is with the constant flipping of AM to PM shows? One day its 1600 show, the next its 0500. I wish we could make AM schedules and PM schedules.
Example of my last 4 day - 16 hours block by the way.
Day 1 - 0800 show - 2100 finish
Day 2 - 1630 Show - 2100 finish
Day 3 - 0630 show - 1100 finish
Day 4- 0500 show - 1700 finish
Swap my sleep schedules around, then load me up for a 7 hour block 12 hour duty day on day four. I'm sure its all Delta's fault, but I wouldn't be a pilot if I didn't have something to ***** about.
RANT OVER