Originally Posted by
acl65pilot
It costs a possible revenue seat. 12K pilots and two seats a week. 24K seats a week 1,248,000 seats a year. There is a cost.
So does DH'ing, which we do far more of than call in honest.
The former NW call im honest bought less than 50 (I'll dig up the exact number) seats last year in DTW out of 2000 pilots. The system is designed so it can not be abused, and was not.
It saves money in the fact there were far fewer cancellations with the program getting pilots to work on an occasional PS than pilots calling in sick when they realized they couldn't commute.