Originally Posted by
N311JB
This is true. But an IROP means no money at all because we corned ourselves. Legacies have hubs everywhere to re route or just make money.
Crews stay together. The have multiple flights a day so the can cx 3/4 and get the rest out. Swapping EDCTs. A plane delayed in PHX say will avalanche because we can’t put those pax anywhere unlike legacies that don’t have to wait on inbound
Heck just JFK look at the fuel lost. We’re always burning more fuel than we want. They recovery time for IROPs is way shorter. Our business model is wound so tight and based on things being normal.
We have a manager at United that sits in the Network Operations Center and his only job is to make sure that when we get EDCT's on high value or critical flights, to swap them with lower value or less critical flights. There are a ton of factors they look at, but its basically all done by software. All he does is call the FAA and asks them to swap specific EDCTs to minimize overall disruption based on numbers of connections, crew legalities, future aircraft usage, etc.