Originally Posted by
flyguy81
Since Crew planing builds the lines…I want to know who the moron was that thought it was a smart, efficient use of crew utilization to kick people out of DEN to LAS and then having LAS trips with 3 DEN overnights.
So is it moronic that DAL has overnights in ATL? How about UAL in DEN? AAL in DFW? Almost all airlines have overnights in domiciles. Just follow the money. SWA has overnights in all its domiciles. I had DEN overnights long before all these displacements came along. DPOS doesn’t really care about overnights. It cares about rigs, which is a much bigger cost than an overnight. Quite blaming crew planning or network planning. This solely is the fault of a loop hole that by the way has been voted on for 40 plus years by this pilot group. Needs to be fixed no doubt. Crew planning is taking advantage of it because it’s allowed and it doesn’t cost them a dime. Now if everyone exercised their right for a paid move, they would eat crow big time. Bottom line is it’s cheaper to displace you than to keep you in domicile. Make the math work in the pilot’s favor. If or when we get another fleet type, just as they discussed on the SWAPA podcast, some of these decisions that planning will make are more complicated and more importantly costly if another fleet type comes around. That would be a benefit because we wouldn’t need to burn any negotiating capital to get restrictions. If it doesn’t, restrictions and penalties are needed to make the pilot whole.