Originally Posted by
JimInOhio
Your proposed schedule is way longer than any current UA crew trip. Also, when you write "crew starts (and ends) at XXX", those are extra deadhead trips on each end.
You are just wrong about this. When I worked at UA there were definitely pilot schedules like IAD-LHR-LAX-LHR-IAD. Six days, no deadheading. IAD-based 777 pilots. I think at the time there was no LAX 777 base but UA decided a 777 was the best A/C for LAX-LHR.