Originally Posted by dojetdriver

Honesty, I'm not either.

However, when I was in class in May I asked B.C this question; How come the WHOLE time we were out on the west coast I never heard a SKW plane decline direct routing, as well as why they could take the RNAV SIDs out of SLC and we couldn't.

His answer, "they're behind the scenes flight ops engineering is different than ours".