Originally Posted by
sailingfun
To figure that out you would need to know how much trip coverage occurred in the 18 to 12 hour window. Historically at Delta and basically every major hub airline shortcall is tied far more directly to reroute rules and financial penalties. Airlines with tight reroute rules tended to not have great reserve rules and vice versa. In the end management needs a mechanism to cover short notice trips without exorbitant cost penalties. Under RA an obsessive focus on reliability is what took Delta from the bottom of the industry yield cure to the top. The number one concern of high yield business travelers is will I arrive ontime.
This makes a lot of sense. 18 hour callout is one thing, but the SIGNIFICANT reroute pay increases we now have may have more of an an impact on SC utilization. SC is the cheapest solution for short-term trip coverage, so not a surprise that it's becoming more and more of a go-to for covering trips. It's probably the weakest (in terms of company cost) link in the chain from a pilot perspective.
Imagine a poll of pilots with the following options:
1) I like to be rerouted
2) I like short call
I think #1 would win by a landslide for the pay implications.