Originally Posted by
EWR73FO
Don't get me wrong. It is a good thing. We simply have a culture at sCAL that wants productivity over soft time. Breaking off the front end/back end turn of a 3 or 4 day allowed for more time at home and less away. Sitting in a hotel getting 5 hours of pay for the day vs sitting at home is a no brainer. What's scary is flying a 757 to HNL with no GPS.
Please tell me you are joking about the no GPS thing? I'd rather fly an old s-UA 757 with Pratt's out to Hawaii than one of our new 737-900ER's any day. I've noticed since the merger we have added tons of 757-300 flights from the West Coast to Hawaii and have enjoyed a few of these Kona/Maui layovers myself. Even though it looks like I'm going to the 737 in a few months I hope marketing puts nothing smaller than a 757-200 on Hawaii flights going forward.