You have it backwards, how did fNW used to fly airplanes until we were told to use FPS and AWABS and here is your training in the form of bulletins and videos?

We used to have a lot more INTERNATIONAL flexibility. As recently as last September I can recall flying a transpac random route filed 60nm south of the published track to avoid moderate turbulence. The DL 7ER was filed ON the published track and they got the crap beat out of them. Watched him on TCAS all the way across the pacific and they couldn't join us because the waypoints we filed were NOT in the FPS database.

As far as on-time performance, there is speculation that WDR problems were masked until fNW aircraft were mixed in with fDL because fNW the DOOR HAD TO BE CLOSED to generate an out time. Some people I have talked to think that some fDL were turning on the beacon early to generate the out times and thus creating a false dataset for d0 performance. I don't have any way of verifying that theory.

By all accounts FPS worked fine for domestic flights. It's international where FPS really costs us time, money and passenger comfort.

Still waiting for an answer to my three questions. Maybe alfa is the guy that wrote FPS?

1. Is the author of FPS still working at DL?
2. If so, is the author in charge of the FPS Department?
3. Is the author receiving royalties from DL for tthe use of FPS?