Originally Posted by
flydiamond
As someone from the outside, working for an airline without rigs, have you ever considered that your pairings are constructed more efficient because of the rigs? Company is incentivized to avoid 3 1/2 hour sits, long overnights, etc. believe me, they don’t like paying for work that isn’t performed. Rigs are a great thing, especially with an airline that flies 50 seaters on some very very short flights.
It’s definitely an incentive to build trips that aren’t a waste of time. While it’s true that the company tends to build trips that aren’t “rigged” during the initial build, they definitely come into play during irregular ops when trips are cobbled together from open time. If you are aggressive about trading you can get paid quite well for sitting in a hotel watching Netflix.