Originally Posted by spooldup

Yep. There are A LOT of these and A LOT of them could be solved by tacking on a turn or something. But guess what, they don't have to pay us? they keep us on the hook for 30hrs/3 days and can reschedule us as needed within that footprint for 10hrs of pay.

There are also some 4 day trips that pay 15 or 16hrs that are 3 legs 1 day, 1 leg, 30hr layover, 1 leg. It is ridiculous. The same way a 5hr turn, is fine yes, but there are SO MANY 5 hr turns, there are not many 3 leg days that are something like DFW-FLL-NYC-DFW. There are turns out of vegas that are 4 legs, 5.5hrs and almost 11hrs of duty.

Our trips are super inefficient for the bottom 80% of the pilot group. With that being said, I am sure if they were more efficient, we wouldn't have as many lineholders. We would have more reserves, and probably be "overstaffed" by more than a few pilots per plane. But instead of that, use our pilots and planes to increase frequency with these efficiencies.