The tail doesn't wag the dog. And lets be honest, we're talking a few hours of credit over days of work on some trips. Overall it has millions of dollars impact in credit per duty period avg. But you can't eliminate all the network inefficiencies MDG helps offset without rescheduling dep times to less convenient connections, putting the wrong gauge on a route, or eliminating routes altogether. Revenue and fleet utilization will always rue the day here. Reducing pilot credit because we have a min day is left to crew resources, AFTER the schedule is built. Only collaboration I can see would be consolidation of fleet types in outstations to better facilitate trip construction and overnight reductions...but they are already doing this, for a multitude of other reasons as well. Again, I was at a DCI that had ADG, then switched to a MDG. I know what it did for us, and it increased avg credit per duty period and altered trip construction negatively much less than y'alls fear, because network runs the airline. Ask Bob S.

But the either or argument isnt needed. This is more of an ADG left to itself is being exploited against us. Lets keep our ADG, and ADD a Min day on top of it. Like SWA.