Originally Posted by
IrishNJ
Assigning a reserve a trip down to MCO to go to JBU for landings costs nothing. The room at JBU costs nothing (loads of empty rooms), The sim costs nothing, the deadhead costs nothing (tons of empty seats). Only cost is your per diem which is being spent on food and beer at JBU.
I think you’re right. Worst case you have some 190 pilots dequal and now needing RQ1. Now rather than sitting at home doing nothing on LCR/SCR they’re doing nothing waiting for a couple legs of OE. A pain in the butt for the pilots, but that doesn’t mean anything to the company.