You are right, but their counter will be "that is what the duty rig is for".
Face it, no matter in what manner it comes to us, we want more money. Attempts to reduce "more money" are offensive to all of us.
Micromanaging the operation will come back to bite them, the more rules they make, the more I will follow the rules without solving problems. If those rules end up hosing the operation because they don't want us to use our heads to "make it work" I don't care, it has become the Company's problem not mine. They pay us a shotload
less then they should of money to make good decisions, if they take away the asset of the Delta Pilots using good judgement on the line, the operation will suffer.