Schedule Quality Decreasing
 

Is it just me, or has anyone else noticed a continual downward trend in schedule quality, specifically on the 320? It seems like every month that goes by the trips get worse with longer duty days, tons of block time and short overnights. Fewer and fewer good trips to even bid for in the first place. Plus the line credit window keeps getting pushed higher each month. I’ve noticed this specifically since about a year ago around Q2 2025 up through the current bid period. It seems nobody holds anything tolerable unless you’re in the top 10% in your base and seat. What is going on?? Is this all intentional by the company?

I'm sure the lack of hiring last year didn't help. Negotiations coming up. Summer is upon us. Could go on and on but expect it to continue for the foreseeable future.

73 trips are pretty good. Plenty of 2 leg or less a day trips

I see this on my commute. Years of 320 guys longing for the demise of the 757 and now as they begin to enjoy FL laps, nothing but frowns on the JS.

shush!

nothing to see here! 😁

My last 1-1-2 leg three day trip was terrible I tell you....terrible! 😉

No change on the widebodies (except for that brutal 2-man BOS/LIS -- yikes.)

Depends on your base I guess. Looking at next month, there seems to be a fair amount of 1 and 2 leg days on the 320. Of course there are plenty of 3-2-3 trips as well. Trip quality has been down across the board since about 2017ish. Flew plenty of 4-leg/4-days and 2-leg/2-days back then. As the daily guarantee ticked up, they started adding turns on the front and/or back of those trips and killed the good times. 0xxx trips will always be the goal for this guy, as we have an aversion to building enough day trips to fill more than two or three lines.

But the yoke! And no tray table! Unjust working conditions!!

I mean, if they flew it EWB-LIS or PVD-LIS it would basically be a domestic flight. (I was a minority in my HS there for not being Portuguese or Cape Verdean)