Someone dropped a 9.5 hour 4 day into open time during SAP this month, and yet the company keeps insisting that SAP is the problem and a depressing amount of pilots agree with them.

When surveyed the vast majority of the pilot group said they use SAP to drop low credit for high credit. So more efficient higher credit trips would lead to less need for SAP.

As for Covid the key is the vaccines are here and actually being distributed, and infections are down across the board. On top of that the low cost carriers are taking aircraft orders and hiring for growth. If the legacies are unable to adapt to the new environment of reduced business travel then it looks like the LCC's are ready to fill the void.