Carriers not being considered in pathfinding

Hey is it me or has anyone else noticed that carriers are no longer being considered in the pathfinding of planes flying to a location. I've tried with fighters & tactical bombers, and had a carrier in their range. When I tried sending planes to a location, they pathfind to a 7 hour travel time of land airfields instead of the 2 hour travel time of my carrier. I had to manually land and then "add target" my planes to get them to use the carrier. Are developers tracking this sudden change? This issue wasn't always present