Originally Posted by georgetg

I keep hearing about "cost per block hour" comparison.
I'm all for that, but let's compare apples to apples when we do that.

I'd like to see domestic narrow-body cost per block hour compared between DAL and SWA, that would be a fair comparison.

Obviously augmented crew international ops would have a different "cost per block hour" that, at the same pay rates, would be higher by a factor of 2 for a four man crew.

The other thing we might do is compare pilot cost per ASM.
The airline uses SMs as a metric for most investor communications ASM RASM CASM.

I'd like to see a breakdown of PCASM for domestic and for intl. ops.
I'd also like to see mean total compensation per year of service.

What I don't want is selective data to illustrate a point.
I'd like to see as much quantitative data as possible.
Let's include SW and Airtran JetBlue an why not AFKLM as well...

Cheers
George