This is my thought exactly based on a decade of history here. The company only responds to monetary influences when it comes to planning. Ask the big heads in crew planning and scheduling. They will tell you that there is no dollar cost input into reroute decisions. When it comes to short term execution, they could care less. All these "oh, the skysolver got me because I was the cheapest solution" really boils down to the skysolver grabbing someone because they were the most available and legal solution with the least amount of downstream impact. Previously, that would have been absorbed by rigs. Now it isn't. I think we are going to see a lot of DL style reroute paying trips here in the future. All of my DL friends say that their reroutes now are ridiculous paying simply because it all stacks. That's how it should be.

I know reroutes aren't exactly rampant right now and everyone isn't paying attention to how this is going to impact them, but think back about 18 months. It's all cyclical.

RJS, I think you are absolutely correct about open time being a completely different game. I am also interested to see how they envision this going. As an amateur economist, this is going to be a fascinating study in how humans change their behavior to systematic changes. There are so many big impacts, I can't even really wrap my brain around it. Fully rigged open time is the biggest. No straight time splits is also huge. MOT, vacation slides, being able to pick up over nonfly events..it's too much to grasp, honestly. One thing is for sure, the amount of TFP being generated by open time is going to multiply by a lot.

I am also a positive leaning fence sitter. I am getting into the weeds of the education products now and despite there being a few things that gross me out, I am very impressed with the amount of work that went into this TA. No matter how it goes in the end, I am forever in debt to our NC for removing my anxiety about a medical event and taking care of my family.