Originally Posted by
sailingfun
Not that long ago a big complaint was that we needed trips like SW because guys wanted to work fewer days. Our trip value per day is much better now than pre 2016 but now the trips are to hard.
I'd happily have trips like SWA - but we don't - I don't imagine SWA has many long sits like we do. Recently, we had a 4:30 sit in SEA then another 2 hours in LAX on the same day. Surprise surprise, we then had a short layover because well, we were sitting around all day in the airport rather than have a long layover.
Our trip value per day might of gone up, but our duty day also went up too.
I don't think people wanting max duty days so we can get in 6 hours of flying in a day. We're talking about efficiency and no sits. I've noticed that our turns in hub have gone up a lot - where they used to be under an hour, now they seem to be more on the 1:20 side... which makes the day longer with no additional flight time.