Originally Posted by Balker

It’s funny he/she used the term “steal”. Regular pilots don’t have a say, period.

Now one has to wonder how much pairing building influence has the union scheduling committee. It is impossible to think that the pairing optimizer it’s building layovers in FLL to do day turns. Bringing a crew from another base and having to pay 2 hotel nights per pilot to do a CTG day turn makes zero sense from the cost perspective. It should be a day trip for a FLL crew. As a matter of fact, all Central/South America/Caribbean turns should be day turns and not built into trips. They pay block (except very few exceptions) so there’s absolutely no cost advantage into inserting them into multi-day trips to balance the trip rig out.