Originally Posted by highfarfast

As I understand it, once you have the A1 on that flight, you’re not bumbing anyone if the flight wasn’t booked already. So if you’re assigned A1 weeks out as part of your line on a flight that is not full at the time, then you have a seat on that flight whereas with the A3, you’re at the mercy of passengers buying seats all the way up until you get checked in. If wrong, please correct. If correct, for sequences in a line schedule that end in a DHD, this will improve your chances of getting home because the flights aren’t usually booked full several weeks out (I’m less clear on those that get assigned to a sequence that was part of a line schedule on shorter notice though). But yes, as I understood the email, for the DHDs that are created on short notice like a lot of researve assignments and reasignments after cancelations, this is just a different way of doing things... some good in it and some bad in it, nothing to get excited over.