Right because as we know "the average" is an easily manipulatable statistic. Redeyes alone shorten the "average duty day" a lot. Throw in a short day at the beginning followed by a circadian disrupting rotation or RR's and the average is lowered. Layover averages are significantly skewed by the longer layovers prior to redeyes and the 30 hour rest resetting circadian cascading shuffles.

Rotations on most NB categories right now are brutal. The "Optimizer" is real and it was a sudden, seismic change when that switch was flipped and its gotten worse since.

NYC NB used to be a commuters paradise and many of the trips weren't that bad. With a little seniority, which always comes quickly there, a good line was easily attainable. Now things are so bad CA is almost at NH class levels and first pagers in BES can't get lines as good as less than halfway would get you just a few years ago.

The good news is since we've been educated that the Optimizer only tweaked productivity a couple percent, it should be very easy to totally and completely roll back. After all, its only a couple percent.