Originally Posted by saturn

The reason we have no 1 & 2 day trips is because of Average Daily Guarantee. The longer the trip, the easier it is to dilute block down to 5:15 avg.

After network, marketing, and fleet build the flight schedules, they hand it to Crew Resources to staff. Network, marketing & fleet have higher priorities than increased pilot credit, like revenue capture, hub banks, slots, airplane use, MX, etc. From CR perspective, some flight times are difficult to staff efficiently. They pay Bob S and Ryan G to figure out ways to reduce credit while still staffing network's plan. With ADG, they can turn these staffing lemons (redeyes, long sits, mixed fleets at outstations, less than daily frequency, etc) and make low credit rotation lemonade by inserting high block duty days along side. The program that worked that out was Carmen aka Optimizer, and result was 2018 we needed to tap the brakes on hiring. Same timeframetrip construction started eliminating 1 & 2 day trips. CR is exploiting ADG because they can, and are invectived to. We need other rigs to fix trip quality and trip duration mix (addition of MDG, better duty rig, etc).