I agree that there is no perspective on what these numbers mean.

Is the company trying to say that they ARE NOT BUILDING schedules to between 80-90 hours a month? If they are, then they are definitely "spinning" their numbers. The union probably used the numbers from the line awards while the company used the post-month final flying numbers.

As was mentioned before, "flying" is only going to show just that. What about the DH time? Averages are just that...some are flying less and some are flying more with a lot of the "less" side being sick calls, vacations, and training.

My actual totals since the beginning of the year have "averaged" over the company's numbers, not including DHs, and taking into account a vacation month so far. Leaving off the vacation month, the average goes up to just shy of 80 hours ACTUAL flying, not including DHs.

But flying hours as we know don't complete the picture of on the road time. The company will spin this to mean, "Look these greedy pilots are only flying 60 hours a month while the poor souls of the traveling public have to slave to take in one vacation flight a year." Selectively leaving out all the time we are sitting in the airport on duty not getting paid. Leaving out all the time you are doing duties prior to pushing off the gate to start that flight time. We all know the drill and that the company's numbers are worthless drivel. Where is the chart showing how much time away from base pilots are doing each month?