Originally Posted by
jetset
Devil's Advocate on this one. Multiple fleet types and regional feed add to better schedules for mainline fleets. We have no regional feed so all that flying is ours which makes for more dense schedules vs the other guys with our network. Especially when they run in in the red. If AA/UAL/DAL had less options they would have pretty crappy schedules too. They do not make the schedules nice because they want to give pilots QOL. If that were the case then TA-1 at UAL and AA would have reflected that notion.
We do not have better schedules and QOL though. That is for certain.
our dense schedules give us way more time at home. I had four 3 day AM this month. That gave me 19 full days at home and 8 more that I was there at least part of it. For me that equates to it being better. I don’t want to spend 30hr on overnights all the time. We definitely fly more legs, that’s the trade off.