Oh yeah! We do have long checklists.

Not to be defensive here,
AA is constantly reviewing times on our sequences over a 3 month rig.
For next months schedule bid one of our Europe trips lost :30 minutes.
That trip is all hard time and no pay and credit. Due to pilots continually underflying.
For those that do not fly Europe, flt times vary wildly due to winds, storms and ride even on random routes.
That is just one example.
Last year we had a 757 taxi out and the left main gear broke (not collapsed) and dug into the ground coming to a very quick halting stop. There is now a new support shroud on all AA 757's. A FA was injured on that taxi out.

I know you're all going "Oh, yeah suuuurrrrrreeee, they're doing the Crandall crawl."
Maybe.
I did some volunteer work with Hot Spot (for taxi-ways and runways). One conclusion was all airlines taxi too fast.

For anyone that has never flown a MD80. The brakes chatter and shutter once they get warm.
As a drama queen i've flown Super 80 and 737's and 757's into and out of SNA. The S-80 always made me extra alert about getting into the brakes early so they didn't start chattering near the end of the runway. I know i'm overstating or embellishing this. But that is what a SDQ (Super drama queen) is supposed to do.

I've not reviewed the AIM recently, but have heard the "taxi at a brisk walk" has been removed.
A brisk walk is 4.0 mph.

Lastly, our loads we never know when we'll get them. We can Acars "bang the gong" message to loads, but it doesn't help. Wish we had SWA's ATOG laptop system. But we don't.

And maybe, just maybe. Pilots just aren't available on days off anymore to pick up open time. Maybe pilots are just flying their schedules and maybe a minute or two here and there adds up in their monthly hours and minutes total.

Just posting some thoughts.
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