Originally Posted by Qotsaautopilot

You gave an example of a crew doing 3 tuns over 3 days. Then you have an example of a crew doing the equivalent of 2 turns over 3 days. If the company paid the first crew more money because they did more over three days. The second crew did only 2 turns worth of flying over 3 days. Yes trip averaging allowed the company to build that pairing and not have soft time which would have otherwise been created without trip averaging and a true min calendar day. You example still doesn't explain why trip averaging creates more out of base crews doing flying from another base. They can easily have a crew do two turns for 13.5 instead of the equivalent of two turns for the same 13.5 over 3 days and 3 duty periods plus hotel costs.

Now if what your saying is if we didn't have trip averaging and also had a true min calendar day that 3 day FLL trip wouldn't have been created in the first place because it would have triggered a bunch of soft time and that flying would have remained in ord. I actually think this is what you mean now and that I agree with.