Originally Posted by
PeezDog
I'd like to hear others' stories of waste being observed on the line at XJT. I think it would be intersting to see what others have seen.
For example, last week. Our deadhead flight was about 3 hours late. We were to operate another turn after, which would have ran about a hour late. So in their wisdom, they pulled us off the turn, replaced it with a reserve crew they had to deadhead in from ATL, while we sat in DTW and did nothing for almost 4 hours instead of operating that turn. Makes no sense! Why not take the hour delay and not waste 2 crews plus the cost to deadhead!? Makes my head spin
I'm going to be honest. Assuming they judged staffing to be sufficient this sounds like a logical decision in the best interest of the customers. If they can keep those flights (and possibly additional later ones) on time, shouldn't they try to do so? Our performance numbers need all the help they can get. Unless over guarantee the reserve crew is little to no additional cost.