your argument seems focused on the fact that there are a lot of open time trips..not the coverage of them. that's a different argument. All i'm talking about is how these trips get covered. Yes, there are many factors affecting why there is so much more open time now, from the crappy trips nobody wants to fly, to the fatigue calls, to the lack of staffing. Those are relevant for why theres so much open time, but not for how they are covered. Would you agree that taking 30 hours to cover a trip in open time is excessive? That's low batch sizes. we could have a category of 1 million pilots and because they only call 1 or 5 per batch it still wouldn't get covered. see my point?