Originally Posted by
Dirtdiver
There's an infinite number of examples of the company doing something stupid that has no cost advantage. Why do they DH crews to SEA to fly SEA-ICN, SEA-LHR, etc? Bottom line, every base will lose time with VBs. And the "no ocean crossing first leg" rule will be the first to go by surrender monkey LOA.
Do you have a crystal ball? Pretty early to be predicting what *will* happen.
Also why don't you call the crew planners and ask those questions? While we could stock a library with the history of stupid DAL decisions, often this stuff is done far beyond the scope of you and I posting on message boards. Sometimes there is even a rationale behind it.