Originally Posted by
FangsF15
As it turns out, I think some/many folks were just find being treated as airport standby, so long as they are getting paid extra to do it. Just saying. The fact that it disincentivizes the company to willy-nilly reroute folks may actually be the ancillary benefit, not the driving force behind the change.
Same reasoning behind soft pay (EDP, Sit, etc). People now bid to get the extra pay when the idea was to rein in optimizer.