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Flightcap
For what it’s worth, very few of our trips would be able to be split under a requirement to touch the originating domicile. Most of our multi-day trips only touch base on the first and last legs. The base turns are almost always built as day trips. With the two airlines merging this could be an interesting wrinkle in schedule construction if base touching is much more common at F9. It would make trip splitting relevant. We don’t have the ability to split trips at all in our current language.
I’m not up on the exact process of selecting the trips that will be withheld to stock IOT. I think there’s some union/company collaboration but I don’t know exactly how it works.
At F9, the open time trips are simply those that were not assigned to lineholders by PBS. There can be up to 5% open time.
Our management has been trending more and more towards out and back flying, with the majority of trips being 1-2 day trips. How that will be affected at the combined company is unknown.