DFW is in its own little bubble that is protected from the chaos of the other bases. That is pretty much the only thing going for it due to its lack of growth. Unless the schedules have changed there aren't a ton of flights that go through there, so deadheading reserves into position on company metal during our monthly IROPs is limited. And since they will do anything to avoid paying for offline deadheads, that lessens the probability of being called out.

If/when IAH opens that will drastically affect DFW reserves as the company will just limo everyone back and forth much like they do between MCO and FLL. We do not have any limitation on the length of surface deadheads and that is absolutely something that should be addressed in the next contract due to having crew domiciles in such close proximity to each other.