I like the delinking idea as well. Our current schedule has both evening flights to PIT (530 and 715) coming from PHL (757s) going back into PIT with a minimum 30 min conx for many of the flights. Anyone want to guess how many times they've been on time so far? How many people are getting their exercise nightly trying to connect in PIT?
This is another example of take a bad idea and make it worse. Not only do both planes COME from PHL but go back into a minimum connecting bank IF they are on time. What are they thinking?
As far as the other situation, depending on what cities they decide to fly point to point, some of the planes outbound from a hub that wouldnt necessarily make good connections back into the same hub could be used as part of the point to point flying during certain times of the day. This would also allow for point to point flying during the day to turn into hubbound flights so the above situation of trying to "force" a plane to make connections wouldnt have the pressure on it during the day.
This is another example of take a bad idea and make it worse. Not only do both planes COME from PHL but go back into a minimum connecting bank IF they are on time. What are they thinking?
As far as the other situation, depending on what cities they decide to fly point to point, some of the planes outbound from a hub that wouldnt necessarily make good connections back into the same hub could be used as part of the point to point flying during certain times of the day. This would also allow for point to point flying during the day to turn into hubbound flights so the above situation of trying to "force" a plane to make connections wouldnt have the pressure on it during the day.