Originally Posted by
Khantahr
All of this is subjective. If I want to do two leg day trips with no time zone changes and sleep in my own bed every night, WB would be the worst of everything.
True, but how many people can consistently achieve two-leg day trips month after month for a significant part of their careers? While I'm not familiar with Delta's system, at AA, securing those day turns typically requires being in the top 10-15% at each base, which generally correlates with wide-body captain seniority. Everyone else on the narrowbody side is stuck with 3 or 4-day trips with multiple legs per day to satisfy the "optimizer" that came about because of the Average Calendar Day LOA.