Originally Posted by
acl65pilot
What we are all forgetting is that the FT/DT will take away the ability of the SWA pilot to pick up the flying he/she currently does. It will put their scheduling rules and utilization more in check with ours. Simply put, less time to work your tail off at a fellow pilots expense. See SWA has never stagnated and that is why this practice has never come to light. As they stagnate more, it will.
Also go look at the mit stats for hrs flown per pilot. Heck I will give em to you.
http://web.mit.edu/airlinedata/www/2...er%20Month.htm
SWA is at 52.00 we are at 42.00. Again I cannot find data that would indicate that augmentation of 8+ hr flights has been taken here.
I have a feeling that there are some discrepancies with multi-crew flights that make a block hour comparison very difficult to do. While MIT doesn't disclose how they do the math (that I can find) other data analyst that I have seen take the total hours and divide by 2.
The important page is
THIS which shows that based on fleet makeup (narrow body vs wide body a/c) we are paid less than: SWA, Alaska, Continental, and JetBlue. Based on the fleet data I found we are even with are right behind AMR.
Again I believe that the Block Hours Flown and the high ASM crew cost likely have a lot to do with Delta's choice to fly a lot of multi-crew international flights and have little to do with anything you and I control.
The fact is that this international flying which makes our numbers appear higher actual makes more money for Delta, at least they claim it does. It certainly should not be used as ammo against us as it is a management decisions.