Originally Posted by
OpieTaylor
Some airlines utilize out of base crews because Table B is limiting. Early starts flown from one time zone to the right and late finishes flown from one time zone to the left.
If a LAS crew lands late in DEN they have higher utilization then letting a DEN crew land late, because they are acclimated to LAS when they consult Table B for duty day limits.
We can analyze more efficient utilization a number of ways than what the company is currently doing (RE trips being staffed from the east coast is one example).
There’s no acclimating needed if you’re doing a day trip that starts around noon and finishes before midnight.
At the end of the day they’re gonna do whatever the heck they want with total disregard for our QOL and when it finally starts to cost them $$$$, they’ll change it. It’s our job (or the head shed at Swapa’s to throw data in their face ASAP to get changes made quickly).