Originally Posted by
GutterGuard
How about these trips with 3 hour sits before your penalty lap? I feel like they're effectively using us as free airport standby to cover reroutes.
…except that’s not free anymore. You’ll get sit pay, reroute pay if they do need to use you, and the long sit could very well force EDP that day, which starts paying you like a green slip every minute after 10 hours. Those financial taxes on the optimizer shape its solutions, which I’m actually fine with. And for those who don’t want the end-of-rotation penalty lap - you can now try to release yourself with a jetway trade. I’ve picked up a couple of those as a local in the time we have had the option.