Originally Posted by
captnate702
Yep, exactly. They fly from A to B and back to A everyday. What you are proposing is flying from A to B to E sleep fly from E to W layover W to N sleep fly N to C to A (and that would be an easier routing for the legacy carriers).
You never answered my question: do you really think this scheduling team and management could run a legacy or Southwest type operation with 4-5 day trips without completely falling apart?
Eventually yes. The computers figure all this out not the people, not merlot but other software. I'll just ask you, what happens when we can't staff the small 12-15 pilot bases and flights start cancelling because 3 FO's left in a week? How do we grow when the current larger bases can't overnight any more airplanes because the gates or spots are full?