Originally Posted by
LumberJack
That is false. Maybe you weren't here before ARCOS.
GS and IA used to be covered manually one at a time and we had the best reliability.
With proper staffing for both pilots and schedulers, more resilient trip construction, better usage of reserves, etc., the company solves their problem.
You're (deliberately and intentionally) leaving out an important part. GS were never proffers pre- ARCOS and neither were next day WS. Also literally zero pilots put in OOB anything without the hope that they would actually be awarded and fly such a trip. Those factors were all the difference in the world.