Originally Posted by
SUPERfluf
There are some high productivity 5 day IRO pairings that do multiple HI turns.
Since its a DH out to the west coast and back to CLE, most of the guys get released on the last day and go back to CLE or wherever they live on the last day making it a 4 day.
Actually did some research on this:
3-day and 4-day HI trips in CLE are higher times with turns and an IRO. Was told that the IRO positions on these trips go very senior because of what was mentioned: DHs on either end. As a result they are almost never in open time because of their productivity.
The 5-day HI trips are the overnights in OGG and HNL. These are the same ones I saw in CLE trip advertisements when I looked in CCS the other day. There are no 5-day trips with HI turns on them. They are the overnights in HI.
Information I got was that the 5-day stuff is always being advertised because of the low value and trip length. Right now just LAX to HNL/OGG exist and SNA flights to HNL/OGG are suspended until mid-December.