Originally Posted by
APCLurker
There is no operational necessity for CDO's. It is simply a tool of convenience for the company to circumnavigate the 10 hour minimum rest and reduce costs/complexity/whatever other benefit they see. The schedule can be adequately flown without them, just as it is right now, and has been for some years. And I am definitely getting the impression here that it is about the money.... Regarding all your other examples: so because we do other types of fatigue-prone flying, that makes it ok to add yet another fatigue-prone operation thru CDO's?
This is getting at the meat if the issue too... What these CDOs show, and the reason for them is that it is marketing that runs this company, and that operations has to do yoga to accommodate them. If they want an 88 to go into and out of a small market last and first, operations should press marketing hard enough to make sure they get a little consideration in that area. I would love to see some empirical data that would show we get book aways if the last flight into GSO leaves at 21:30 rather than 23:30. etc etc etc....