Originally Posted by
CBreezy
While I'm sure the company hates paying for hotel rooms, it's likely more consistently reliable than commuters getting to NYC. It looks like the company is wisely reducing staffing requirements in NYC in favor of DTW/ATL to staff the NE flying. Certainly sucks for the people who have made their bed playing the seniority game and NE locals.
True to some extent. However, the rotations that are being built for those ATL/DTW crews are pretty horrendous. 4/5 day trips, short layovers, and lots of up and down east coast type stuff. That's gonna be fatiguing. I think one NY based NB pilot has already chimed in that they are sniping the broken up trips from those rotations. So I can see that fatigue, or just rolling delays in the operation, are going to tear those 4/5 day trips apart. Like I said, it will be interesting to see how this plan holds up in the summer months (I don't think it will stand that test).