I understand why everyone feels BA/CX are on the side of reason. But they are only following the logical rule that flight schedules are available 330 days out. Does this mean that if another airline decided to make schedules available 700 days out that they would be more or less on the side of reason.

My point being, that knowing the rules and the underlying rationale, or at least perceived rationale, is our basis for subjectively determining what is reasonable.

Seasonal schedules come out about 350 days prior to the END of that seasonal schedule. For example I fly to EGE (Vail, Co) every year for skiing and book my ticket as soon as the schedule is made available in order to secure F seats. For next year the last day of scheduled service is April 2, 2006 so schedules were available on April 17, 2005. The previous year schedules were available about a week later.

So using that underlying logic, schedules for next year's DFW-ANC flights should be available for booking around the end of October, 2005 since the last scheduled ANC flight (out of ORD) will probably be around the beginning of October, 2006 if this year's schedule is any indication.