Originally Posted by dontsurf

apparently people have not been actually paying attention. the scheduling changes had nothing to do with the contract. the company was taking control of the pairings starting in October 2018 no matter what. the contract had nothing to do with that. others have pointed that out, but no one seems to notice.

we should be very thankful that we have the contract and its extremely strong language regarding pairing construction (it truly is industry leading) or else things would be way, way worse.

ask your friends at united and delta what would happen if the company optimized for lowest cost. would their cba pairing construction rules prevent anything at all? no, they would not.

i know reality doesn't fit the narrative of some of the complainers on here, but there are several of us that still like to point you back toward reality sometimes. I've seen other people do it in this thread, and be ignored, so now it is my turn to do it and be ignored.