Thing is, 92 hours in a 31 day month pays for your basic salary, right? So the matter of how many miles you cover in those 92 hours matters, right? Speed counts.
You'll spend 20-45 minutes in the Desdi/Bubin hold no matter what, right? So speed matters, because whether you spend those after you've been in cruise for 20-25 minutes less counts.
We're short on crews, so having crews time out 30-40 hours less counts, because they can fly them another 30-40 hours.
Also, I think factoring will go away for sure soon and I think this panic move shows that they're desperate to make up for the resulting crew shortage.