Originally Posted by
rcfd13
To me it seems like they could save money by making trips more efficient since 5 pilots flying 16 hour 4 days is the same as 4 pilots flying 20 hour 4 days. I assume they either must be doing it on purpose, or they just love paying for more staffing than they need to.
I think it's a combo of SGU and UA/AA/DL/AL/US differing schedules. More so SGU's problem since they refuse to change how they operate in Crew support/Planning.
I know the computers/software we are using to create our schedules is quite antiquated. Recently, just read about a man who runs a gambling business, and he simulates the entire football season 50,000 times in under 2 minutes. Yep, 256 games with 22 players imputed to come up with his predictions.
SkyWest could pay this guy a few mil to save them millions per year, but that's against our corporate philosophy.