Originally Posted by
LoopsMcDoops
Apparently these guys think it's your fault the company has built in so many 1 and 2 day trips.
I have personally seen it on a weekly basis. Friends on reserve are only flying 1, 2, and some 3 day trips. Our pilots will in fact be commuting to do turns. That's how the lines are being built. Also, October is a slow month. Not a lot of open time. Gonna get real ugly. That's fine though, just another shot in the foot of the company increasing attrition.
Yeah but that's reserve which is a whole different ball game. I'm sure they do get them on reserve when others call out sick, or they get the DH out to fly one leg back. That just comes with the territory of being on reserve though.
Just for context, there are hardly any day turns in CA open time for the remainder of October more than two days out from now. MCO has quite a few but outside of that FLL and DTW each have one (late PM turns), and LAS/ORD/DFW all have a grand total of zero day turns in open time. I'm sure they will lose a few pilots over this, but the sky is hardly falling as most seem to be quite okay picking them up.
Trust me I wish more people hated day turns as much as I hate a 15 hour layover in at the LGA Marriott on a four day will all short layovers.