Originally Posted by magnus0322

Outstation bases the philosophy is to keep the crews out in the system as long as possible and available for reassignment. They get mostly 4 and 5 day trips with early report times on Day 1 and late finishes on the last day. You will find commuting to those outstations to be miserable.

LGA is severely short staffed and as an example this month of out 500+ trips available there were only 9 total trips available that were at least 3 days commutable on both ends. That's with a 1030am or later report on Day 1 and a release time of 830pm or earlier on the last day. There aren't a ton of places that are able to commute that early into / that late out of LGA I'm just luckier than most. Even then I still lost 3 days off this month to the lack of commutability. Other bases seem to have more commutable multi day trips like EWR and DCA. BOS has very poor commutability. PHL is such a tiny and senior base that it's hard too. ORD is also small and senior.

Also take everything SoFlo said with a grain of salt. FOs being able to drop reserve is an anomaly due to the current staffing. On the CA side they are unable to drop reserve or drop any trip. There's zero scheduling flexibility. If he's right and the new TA which is still below our peers in compensation passes and it fixes the staffing imbalance then FOs will lose their current ability to drop reserve.

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