Originally Posted by dracir1

Something doesn't add up...

Ok, the distribution of lines (# of hard vs reserve) always seems to vary depending on the month. This has been going on a while and I never really paid much attention to it. However,

For Oct, Dfw shows 27 hard lines and 13 reserve. Phx shows shows 53 and 13. Tpa shows 49 and 17. Mia shows 28 and 13. You would think that there would twice as many departures from Phx and at least MORE dept from Tpa and Mia than Dfw. According to FFTpilots.com, Phx is scheduled for 884 depts. Dfw is next with 743. Tps shows 620. Mia shows only 255. 255 departures with 28 hard lines?

Same thing w/ LC vs SC distro. Las has 26 RSV lines of which 5 are LC but Phl has 23 RSV lines of which 6 are LC. Huh?

According to 25.B.5, the SSC is allowed access to the pairing optimizer for just use to study and analyze scheduling parameters... Is this happening? It's 2023 - do we not have computers that can figure out simple scheduling problems to produce a more equally distributed schedule? I was based in Mia for a little while - great people but I'm surprised it is even a station anymore. We fly more from SJU than Mia most months...

Perhaps a simple improvement would be to better distribute the # of lines...