CatDad

For those saying the legs and aircraft didn’t make sense. That’s an issue in miCrew, but not iCrew. iCrew shows everything “correct” for lack of a better term. My theory is that they are still messing around with flight numbers and the system is confused.

DelDah Capt

Same here.....every leg of every April trip is Canx and there's a bunch of new trips in open time. We're all just 23k fodder

charleyvarrick

Essentially everyone is on reserve. Either literally or through super-secret backdoor 23k. WB guys and gals will be enjoying a month of pay probably with very little or no flying. NB, I doubt it. Marketing will be trying to sharp shoot the schedule, creating cascading changes upon changes upon changes. Tracking will be dialing the WOPR up to 11 and letting it do it's reroute magic as it desperately attempts to adapt to the changes without popping a CB. (Think DH from ATL to LGA and overnight, then fly LGA to ATL only to wake up and find out the leg is cancelled, now DH JFK to DTW to ATL.) It will be baffling and inefficient, but guess what? It will cost them nothing extra because they will have enough 23k and reserves to do this inexhaustibly.

I always like the story in "Fate is the Hunter" where Captain Ross is flying up and down a line of thunderstorms, looking for a hole to pass through. Just as Gann begins to wonder how far off course Ross will go, he notices Ross lower his seat to the stop, fasten his shoulder harness, and reach up and turn on the dome lights. He then looks over at Gann and says, "I advise you to do the same," and proceeds to turn the DC-2 straight into the weather. The ride was . . . memorable.

Banzai

I don’t understand April.

We rebid a lower schedule, but open time is overflowing, and there are capped reserve days everywhere.

Obviously I’m missing something...

mikea72580

This is an exact summary of April.

3 green

I think they capped the reserve days just to keep pilots from dropping...Way more required than last month and the flights have been reduced dramatically..I guess they can just make up how many they want when it comes to reserves required for a certain day.

fishforfun

Everything on your April schedule will likely be NOOP then use 23k to cover the actual trips they build to match demand. Just assume you are on reserve.

tripled

A crew resource manager’s dream: a company full of reserve pilots. Maximum flexibility and very useful for determining a minimum headcount for future runs.