Originally Posted by WMUFlyboy1

Not hard to drag the average down when you have 3 days of 11-12 hour duty with short layovers to then flip the clock with a 24-30 hour layover into a red eye to end the trip and catch up on sleep during your off time. The long layover at the end and short duty day makes it actually more fatiguing, but helps your precious numbers. Numbers don’t tell the whole story as much as you like to opine about it.

2x 11 hour layover + 1x 25 hour layover = 15.67 average
3x 11 hour duty + 1x 5 hour duty = 9.5 average

That describes pretty much every trip I’ve flown in the last 3 months. DTW320. No credit at all thanks to the optimizer so you need to fit all that flying in the first 3 days 3-4 legs a day to pay the company for the privilege of doing a redeye

Thankfully my union speaks for me