Originally Posted by Planetrain

Im not proposing we all suffer for commuting- I’m just pointing out that high ADGs have tradeoffs. Look at Southwest. You want AMs or PMs? All their trips are 12 hour layovers and noncommutable on one end or the other. To some pilots, I’m sure that sounds awesome. To others (like me), this sounds awful. We already have 24:00+ 4-days in the bid packet. If you want them, go bid them. Sometimes I do, sometimes I don’t. I LIKE the flexibility in our current system. Sometimes I bid for high EDP. Sometimes I don’t. With super high ADGs there are tradeoffs. It’s not like 95% of trips are magically going to stay 21:00 block and they pay us 28:00 for the 4-day. The trip construction will turn to money-making barn burners, perhaps requiring less overall pilots.