Originally Posted by MasterOfPuppets

well its not necessarily the crew that is being routed out and back (as in day trips) its the ships. They will go LAX - DEN - LAX -SEA - LAX.....

Instead of LAX - SEA - DEN - DSM - ORD - EWR......

How this affects the trip mix is yet to be seen. What is known is that you will be going back and forth between a single base all day then lay over at an outstation. The next day you may go to another base and then outback to that base and so on. Or you may just spend the entire trip going back and forth to LAX. That is why I said the trip mix might not be that good, due to the lack of destinations out of LAX.

They are doing this to try and keep a snow storm in EWR from affecting the entire operation. The LAX crews should be isolated along with the planes flying out of LAX that day.

We obviously need layovers for the late night arrivals/early morning departures at outstations. However, I feel that this new scheduling will greatly increase day trips and 2 day trips and cut 4+ days significantly. Well see......