Originally Posted by
gloopy
Its not the "regional flying" that's the issue. Its the massively diluted BES redundancy and enhanced by relentless marketing that boosts credit and puts one penny over pilot QOL, all force multiplied by the 2018 Optimizer with the Prime Directive to reduce credit to the bone.
It doesn't have to be as bad as it is. Even regionals and LCC's don't have zero to 2% commutable trips.
This. Imagine how many millions could be saved by maintaining every Delta workspace at 80 degrees Fahrenheit in the summer and 60 in the winter. Luckily for those who work in these spaces, quality of daily life at work matters more to management than the potential HVAC dollars saved (not to mention the reduced effect on climate change that Delta says they care about). Dollars spent/invested in our pilot qol are not treated similarly.
We need to get back to certain levels of quality of life that are simply the costs of doing business. Otherwise I fear where this optimizer path takes us in the years and decades ahead…