Originally Posted by
Smooth at FL450
well, when those DEN overnights are there to fly DEN-LGA-DEN turns…within OAK and LAS pairings, yes it’s moronic.
So only DEN pilots should fly DEN turns? Same with other domiciles? Trip rigs, duty rigs, APL, shouldn’t matter? We are in the business of moving metal around all day, every day. Especially in a heavy p2p operation. DEN is not on an island. It’s connected to the network. They all have to flow into each other or else we would need 1600 airplanes just run the operation as is. We are in a low margin business. Ain’t gonna happen. Allegiant and Frontier do that though. Again I feel for you guys but trying to skin the scheduling cat in “turns” is kinda far fetched. Rigs are just as much to blame for this as is RON stuff. It forces the cost of keeping you DEN with soft pay scenarios vs displacing you which costs nothing. That equation has to change to modify the behavior of the company. You have been long enough to know that the only thing that creates change around here is real costs. That’s all they know.