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Old 10-10-2011 | 05:12 PM
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Originally Posted by georgetg
well that's good news then.

That's a pretty good (pardon the pun) delta between the numbers and should offer a nice surprise on the next AE...

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George
Not necessarily so. We did not cut WB seats on any great magnitude on the last few AE's. The company decided to keep the categories fat staffed, so even if there is a slight yoy increase in the flying you will not see a linear increase in the staffing.

Also, I am not sure that the time frame for compliance in the production balance is public, but as I understand it, the length that it is allows for a range, and then when it deviates outside of this range (a few bias points on either side of 50-50) the corrective window is large enough to take in to account normal seasonal adjustments.