I personally believe our low averaging trips are the result of the rapid expansion. We serve many places but often fly a route once a day. You can only get so creative with a single frequency or even with two flights a day. Then you feed all this to the optimizer to cut down on soft time and we got the results we have now.

Pair those 18h 4 days with the 4 days off (like CaScott pointed it out), next keep the long trips off of the beginning and the end of the month to minimize transition conflicts, and you get a 72h line.

I think it will be interesting to see what this next 1-2 years will bring us. If they will increase frequencies we may see improvements. A lot of this is not in the interest of the company either and that may be the only good news. Other than that, this is it folks. We can't even bargain for KCM with the company (and I am not even trying to blame either side, just pointing it out) so we certainly won't be able to sit down and improve trip construction.