Originally Posted by e6bpilot

I heard the same thing but it makes zero sense. They are, in most cases, financially incentivized to not reroute us now. Why would they change their behavior? I think the NCs insistence on using that language is to satisfy the "whoa is me, I am always on reserve, I didn't get my 15 hour columbus overnight that I bid on". I personally dab my tears with the hundred dollar bills they give me and move on.
LCO guarantees you will absolutely make more money in a reroute situation vs before when you could get rerouted in the footprint of your trip or have it absorbed by rigs and make nothing.
This airline would implode if they tried to run a legacy type schedule. We would be a couple thousand pilots and flight attendants short.