Originally Posted by Merle Haggard

I'll go with worse. If there are lots more departure time options to cut your layover short and push your "productivity" up, you can bet they'll use them. I'd also expect more 2, 3, or 4 hour sits to accomodate the next somewhat random departure time. It also makes PBS a much shinier toy when you start to build schedules from a more random pot of flying.