All roads lead to CVG (or ILN). Eventually, you'll be in a city with a flight that goes there. It's just a matter of building pairings that take advantage of that.


There is a 12-day pairing this month that begins and ends at CVG (technically, it ends at ILN with a limo to CVG, but close enough). It goes like this: CVG-ABE-SMF-ABE-AFW-ABE-AFW-ABE-SBD-ABE-ILN-SFO-ILN-(limo) CVG. No deadheads, company or commercial. There are several DEN pairings that are shorter, but also start & end at CVG or ILN. It looks like there is a single crew doing nothing but ABE-LAL for about a week. There may be deadheads involved on either end of that, probably on the company. Next month's pairings look very similar. There are only a very few that involve company deadheads, and a few one-off pairings that have a single commercial deadhead in them.