Originally Posted by Qotsaautopilot

You can't actually believe this. The pairing build is designed to do one thing only and that's fly the schedule with the lowest possible crew cost. If it can do that with late shows and early finishes it will. Due to schedule frequency or whatever factor, that is not possible in some bases while still solving for lowest crew cost. 4/5 days off has nothing to do with early show/late finish pairings.

Btw pbs doesn't change this so it's not a ploy to get pbs either. You are still working with the same pairings.