Originally Posted by ohaiyo

m3113n1a1 has the correct logic here.

Having a low ADG allows the company to build 4-day rotations that have minimal block on days 2/3, but have barn-burners on days 1 and 4. Really it's a function of "A" DG. What we should be angling for is a min daily guarantee of something like 5:15 so as to eliminate the days in the middle that have like 2-3 hours of block - which is really just a waste of my time when I'm on the road.

A 0:00 ADG gives the company max flexibility. An extreme 12:00 ADG would ensure the company has to build rotations that give them maximum block per day to squeeze the most out of us, but they are still constrained by the destinations they want to fly to and by the speed of airplanes. They can't just optimize a given rotation to add :04 minutes of block to one and subtract it from the other because they're not optimizing a continuous function. They're optimizing a discrete one, which is much harder and thus leaves a lot of "slop" in the system that they can't get rid of.

So yeah, maybe rotations would get harder, but they'd also pay a lot more if we had a respectable "M" DG. Your average 3-day would pay probably closer to 20 hours if that was the case. That'd be really nice.