Originally Posted by
sailingfun
The company got burned with the no backup policy during Covid. I doubt you will see that return. A minority of pilots could not be bothered to check weather and other issues before taking the last flight available before their sign in.
There's no indication that this wouldn't have happened without PSC. The majority of pilots not making their commutes were coming from FL where JAX would arbitrarily issue ground stops because they weren't staffed correctly. Missed commutes WOULD have happened using current commuter language . I had one or two CA roll the dice and commute in on flights that were scheduled to get in after show time but even then, we got the flight out on time all but once.
Funny enough, AA doesn't require a back up for their commuters and everything seems to work over there.