Originally Posted by
Trip7
Back then the 73N was a long leg specialist. You'd never see a 73 in TLH, ECP, HSV or BHM. Likewise with the mighty 757. Those were the days of thunder, when the MD88 and DC9/717 were pushing smoke all throughout the burgs and villes of the SE. There were also no Delta Captains under 40, and very few under 50. My how things have changed. Brave New World
At least in Atlanta, you used to see layovers there.The difference was how the pairings were constructed and how those cities were included. Besides the inclusion of 5 leg days, the biggest difference I saw was the long turns pushing max duty and max block on the last day typically after a short layover or circadian flip. The last day “turn” had been a layover in the past with one leg back.
Prior to the optimizer, I held better trips at 65% than I could at 20% after the fact.