Originally Posted by contrails

That's part of it.



The part that won't go away all summer is the fact that the 757 is still flying all day and night into SLC, MSP and DTW.



Many of those crews come in for a scheduled 11-12 hour layover.



With no more reserves in base to call upon when things get behind, it's obviously a horrible plan on a good day -- and the summer schedule has just partially kicked in, and the second wave will be added on top in a couple weeks.



Odd way to run things.