Originally Posted by
tennisguru
One of the biggest factors is that there are a lot of city pairs that are still down 2-3 or even more flights per day from the pre-pandemic schedule. So not only are there fewer jumpseats overall, but fewer flights means having to come in even earlier than you used to on your primary flight and sit longer before ever starting your trip. And the flights we do have are going to be much fuller overall, especially over the busiest holiday travel season this company has ever had.
ah, that makes sense. I didn’t realize. One thing that also seems to have changed is that there are really really early departures and arrivals at the out stations. Like 0540 departures. I don’t remember so many of those before covid. Maybe they are trying to stretch out the planes we have.