Originally Posted by
notEnuf
The best evidence of reroute pay improvement is bidding. Pre C19 senior pilots (top % that could) bid to avoid sits in ATL because you would be rerouted for no extra pay into a longer duty day with a shorter less desirable layover destination. Now pilots do everything they can to be potentially rerouted, including a complete 180 in bidding strategey because between EDP, SIT, and reroutes ATL sits are some of the most lucrative trips. You're welcome.
Speak for yourself myself and many others in my base do everything we can to avoid ATL. I come to work with an expectation to fly the trip as it was built that's why I bid it. I understand that things change and as a result so may the trip but I can speak of only one time that a current contract reroute was worth it and that was because it turned a 5 day into a 3 day. This attitude that everything is about making extra money is pervavsive in the industry but way worse at Delta. If you cant make it on the current rates one is doing it wrong but that's on them. This weekend was another reminder of just how awful it could be dealing with irops and reroutes but to each their own I suppose I should be overjoyed about the extra pay :/