Originally Posted by
Gooner
Plan on red eyes to the east to start a trip, or Hawaii red eye to end the trip. Or before crew planning got new software that says west coast pilots don’t get fatigued on red eyes LAX had zero red eyes. So plan on wide fluctuations of trip building over the years.
There is no such thing as city pairs at DAL, we are too big an operation for those.
And flying here changes fleets/bases all the time. One month you have, one month it was given to someone else, next month it’s on another plane. Even when ER had Hawaii we had months where it was random 3 weeks on -400 or even 737. Definitely do not bid an airplane for layovers or base for layovers.
I guess unless it’s 350 since some routes they have no other choice. Hell I’ve seen 763’s take over 330 routes when they got strapped for planes or pilots for a bid period or two. Delta is not consistent with this stuff at all. I kinda like it. You never really know what you’ll get the next month. Some are great bid packages and some months you are lurking everywhere for the good trips.