Originally Posted by
iaflyer
Yes, but if you have a 16 hour layover in NYC, a 3 hour delay isn't going to mess things up the next day. Most commuters come in the same day, so a 3 hour delay makes them miss their sign-in, and the flight is delayed or staffed with reserve/premium pay.
As I stated before, many permutations here.
What will it do to the ATL based crew that was doing say a PBI turn from JFK, down in pBI when JAX shuts down the airspace? Matters not then who is crewing the aircraft does it? The results are the same. Same could be said for the ATL crew originating the rotation with a first leg into the NYC area. NY closes down or significantly throttles the airspace. Delays. So that crew eventually gets into NY, but now that 14 hour layover has turned into 9 or 10. So now it starts to ripple. The trips I saw did not have many 16 hour layos in NYC. They had longer layos at the out base. Say like SAT or someplace like that was one of the rotations I was shown. But most of the NYC overnights were rather on the short side of it.
This is a plan they are trying out to see if, a big "if", they can improve reliability in the NE (and never forget, they hate commuters).