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05-03-2026 | 06:14 AM
#2601
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05-03-2026 | 06:56 AM
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05-03-2026 | 08:17 AM
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It's not a false narrative. As a credit surfer I agree with Crewdawg. There is risk that credit surfers take.
Don't hate the player, hate the game
- You can get hurt or sick and get potentially get stuck with a very low pay month.
- Credit surfing only works in a certain about of categories that have an abundance of short leg traffic flow thru the base. Credit surfing is much more difficult in NYC than ATL.
- There isn't always a flow of easy broken up trip and I wouldn't advise credit surfing to anyone who only has set amount of days to work. There's been times when it seems like WWIII to get a WSnon a weekend. There have been times when you wake up on a clear blue day in ATL with no open time and before you even have a chance to have breakfast ARCOS rings and you are heading to DHing to Aruba for 24hrs.
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05-03-2026 | 09:21 AM
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05-03-2026 | 10:27 AM
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That’s the delta difference.
05-03-2026 | 12:33 PM
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05-03-2026 | 01:01 PM
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Does Bob Schmelzer still work for Delta? I used to like him in crew resources and his linkedin says that he's in charge of pilot scheduling. If that's true, yikes. He always seemed like a level headed data driven guy. I think anyone doing the analytics of this could see it's not working and the current situation demands a pivot to a new strategy.
05-03-2026 | 01:05 PM
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Does Bob Schmelzer still work for Delta? I used to like him in crew resources and his linkedin says that he's in charge of pilot scheduling. If that's true, yikes. He always seemed like a level headed data driven guy. I think anyone doing the analytics of this could see it's not working and the current situation demands a pivot to a new strategy.
05-03-2026 | 03:20 PM
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We might be talking past each other here. I agree with your point here as I am one of those who has dropped their schedule and credit surfed for over a decade now. But it's not a false narrative to say that there hasn't been a recent increase in this strategy in hopes of easy/free money of m7 and QS. If that gravy train goes away, I'd guess that we'll see many of the recent adopters go back to their old ways, while you and I keep with this strategy. By gravy train, I don't mean moving RSV before WS, I just mean if they take away the ability to AA or something else that will drive down all the m7 being handed out like candy.
I agree with you 100% here.
I agree with you 100% here.
The one additional piece I'll add though that is driving additional same/next/second open time broken opportunities is PWA 23.L.4 Note 3 and Note 4, which drives "created" reroute broken trips back into the coverage ladder, and is somewhat a self-licking cream cone when coverage goes sideways. This also drives credit into those broken trips as it forces more DH one way trips. This was a major association win in C19 and has been driving some of the increase in broken WS-able opportunities that previous would have gone to reroute. This is another important win not to dilute.
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