Originally Posted by
80ktsClamp
By system wide I'm assuming you're including transoceanic, because domestic trip construction has gone tremendously downhill.
Ours on the ATL 320 just fell off the cliff in March. Ugh! All my trips are below 5 hours credit a day except for one, 3 of them include at least 1 5-leg day, and 3 of them include a 30+ hr layover. I'll be working PCS hard again in March.
I meant domestic flying. They also discussed a decline in both the A320 and MD 88 trips. It had nothing to do with 117. With deliveries sliding on the 717 and the decision not to hire last winter they are running out of time for copilots on those aircraft. As a consequence they have removed all quality of life parameters from trip construction on those AC and are using min credit only. They said it should improve as new hires come online later in the spring.