Originally Posted by
DrunkIrishman
I’m not emotional and not accusing you of a thing my friend. I just call balls and strikes. Our rotations are a far cry from what they were before the optimizer. If we don’t do something about it with this current contract, we will have more of the same. What I cannot abide is our own justifying why it is necessary.
Many are using the optimizer as a scapegoat. IMO it's overblown. The main reason for the degradation in trips are a lethal combination of poor staffing, RJ flying upgauging to Mainline, and reduction of fleet mix/fleet simplification caused by retirement of 88, parking of many 717s. Many 737/320/7ER pilots are simply not used to operating the amount of legs we do now. Heck even the 717 back in the day with a LAX base had very nice trips with no more than 3 legs a day. When the plane was moved back east the schedules turned the jet into CRJ200 2.0.
It's a shock factor. Folks need to get used to it because it's not going to get better anytime soon as the Regionals collapse. Take your time, wind the clock, you're too tired to fly, call in fatigued.
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