Originally Posted by Verdell

Trying to wrap my head around this post.

Imagine for a moment you're NOT in a category that's that's breezing through months of RES unused (which is most lately, I would wager.) And are all but guaranteed to be assigned unbroken 3-4-5 day trips on your 3-4-5-6 day blocks. Picking up broken GS/QS on X-days and busting up those stretches of LC goes a LONG way towards making your remaining LC days less usable for unbroken trips.

You're correct to say you're not "gaining" X-days by flying GS/QS over X-days (other than the 9 hours), but in terms of TAFB, flying broken trips vs unbroken trips almost always results in less TAFB.

And then of course there's the pay aspect.