Originally Posted by
acl65pilot
That is simply the cost of doing business for an airline of our size. Also realize that Block hrs that Sailing is reporting are block hours that have not been adjusted for augmented crews. The block per pilot is a lot better than that when you take that in to account.
If you get the block hr per month here then divide it by active line pilot, or total pilots including those in management you get a better comparison.
and is that number floating around somewhere? I agree with you. I think we should run a comparison of just our domestic operation to compare apples to apples. I would like to see that number. The numbers are also slanted when you add in all the reserves for all the different fleets across all the bases. It's very hard for an airline with so many different missions across fleets to have the same utilization of reserves as Southwest does. But thats not our fault and I agree with ACL it's the cost of doing business.