Originally Posted by FTv3

I don’t necessarily mind the long day sits, it’s the conditions surrounding them: nothing to do, WiFi not always available (eg. sdf sleep rooms) or poor quality, can’t exercise (not at sort for the most part and layovers are too short - even then it’s not good for sleep to exercise right before bed), food options very limited and usually crap. Dayrooms solve all these problems.

Our network is the main reason our schedules suck. Airlines optimize, we get what network + optimizer gives us. Contract language forces the optimizer towards our preferences but it all starts with the network.