Allright. You're right, that will be the RI. But not because it's a new route, it's an old one. Because of the D-checks.
So I might indeed complain just a little bit about how this decrease in CI during heavy checks works when paired with cargo.
Cargo LF stays atrociously low until the route reaches ~90 RI. So when you get your heavy checks, you got a double sentence:
- One that is fair and normal (the plane doesn't fly)
- The second one lasts for at least one more month until your RI rebuilds. And that one is not normal. I mean, who thinks a shipping company would completely forget that said airline flies the route just because the plane went in C or D-check? And then it would take 1-2 months for these guys to remember, "ah, yeah, I used to call said airline".