Originally Posted by
gloopy
Total pilot costs and productivity compared to us is the point of these comparisons. If French law mandated 364 days a year of vacation, the increased pilot costs would still make for a cost to cost comparison.
Bingo!
See above post.
The metric to use is Pilot portion of CASM/CASK.
Your hypothetic Frenchman/Dutch/Italian better fly an a380 on that one day to produce as many Seat Kilometers as possible.
Cheers
George