Originally Posted by
iaflyer
I agree - a few years ago I asked Crew Resources why did they have so many 5 day trips in the DTW 737 bid package. "To reduce credit" was the answer. I then asked, well, what's the use when open time is full of 5 day trips that you have to split into two 4 days to cover? Uses 8 days of reserves...
The answer, in a lot more words than this, was, "reducing credit is the goal of crew resources, covering trips is crew scheduling's issue"
Thats not exactly true. The company actually monitors both pre month credit and post month credit. The number they pay the most attention to is post month. This has been discussed in CR letters.