Originally Posted by
gopher3
Honest question....So then what has changed to make trip quality/construction so poor on the narrowbody fleets? This is as bad as its has ever been. And it started long before the summer redline program.
Think of it like this: an optimized run is done with absolute minimum cost/credit. Then planners use a credit “budget” allocated by their managers, to improve the bid package for pilot preference. Those “budgets” have been dramatically cut in the last 24 months or so.
Side effect of that: the PWA provision that requires the first legal deadhead forces messed up redeye+deadhead trips when credit can’t be spent to avoid them. This stuff needs to be fixed at the contract level