You're right airsupport... I didn't fly the flight. But come on dude, if you're going to tell us something from airlinkpilots.com, tell us the whole story. The Captain was complaining about 13 minutes AIRTIME as per his release. Not block time. Not marketing time. Unless Delta does the dispatching for 9E, could it be that this is Pinnacles fault? This is one isolated incident, but we all know that PCL has a horrible dispatcher problem.

As per how DL runs the tail routing compared to NWA... I admitted I didn't know how DL did it in the very beginning. Interesting to know they totally control your tail routing, crew scheduling and paring generations.