Originally Posted by
Gone Flying
I think that had more to do with having 10 fleets and a network planning dept that mixed up flying among fleets so much that endless deadheads ensued. Don’t know if that will change ( well except we are now at 8 fleets)
Exactly. The fleet mix was comical but allowed to continue on the theory of making a penny more and/or bump up the performance numbers. QOL would be trashed because every flight had to be operated by a different fleet which introduced massive inefficiencies that had to be plastered over by the QOL shredding optimizer. Meanwhile nothing could be done about the large perpetual training bubble and all its accoutrements (the 350 arterial bleed disaster, buddy bidder triple dippers, constant rolling thunder, etc). Then to have that very designed system thrown in our faces as "inefficient" while we bag drag and airport sit all over the place to accomidate it was the definition of insult to injury.
To whatever level we're "unproductive" it was by their design for revenue optimization and performance metrics. That's fine. But they don't get to use that against us. Ever.