Originally Posted by
CRJCapitan
Why have Miami crews lay over at UVF/LIR/etc. after only flying three hours when you can have an NY/ORD crew do it and you get six or seven hours out of them instead? I feel for them but they're too close to the action. Probably not going to get better any time soon for them (worse since they're starting to give NY guys LT checkouts).
yup, the optimizer sucks and our union spent exactly zero negotiating capital to try to protect pairings.