I’ll just add this even with planes sitting around dispatch/coordinators have waited to the last minute to either make a change or decide to tail swap to an inbound to where I’ve sat around for 4 hours and timed out because they simply wanted to wait and see.

usually when I check in for a trip whatever punches come our way I just deal with till the time I’m released from the trip. But the inability to make a decision that either keeps the trip on track or minimizes disruptions sucks. When they keep on on duty senselessly when they could either release us early given the situation or make a change that keeps us on schedule but don’t just to keep us till we officially time out really is frustrating.