Originally Posted by
Clear Right
Not criticizing Delta just making an observation based on MIT facts. Sounds like you guys want an award winning contract but you are one of the least productive pilot groups. Take a look at these two charts:
http://web.mit.edu/airlinedata/www/2...er%20Month.htm
http://web.mit.edu/airlinedata/www/2...ity%202010.htm
If I were you all I would force crew scheduling to be more efficient, but also offer up some increased productivity for a better contract. I know the hard corp legacy union chest beaters will say that increased productivity costs jobs, but wouldn't you agree that you could use increased productivity as a carrot for a better contract, and increased organic growth with your new charge for better scope.
We are already pretty productive and when you include the fact that we have about 8 more fleet types than SWA as well as more near term and early retirements and our training bubble alone seriously skews the productivity metrics to make us look like we're not flying when we are. If the company wants more productivity they can have it...because they can start by increasing trip productivity.
How many average days off do SWA pilots get? And that's with
ONE fleet type. Give ALL of us that many days off on average, build narrowbody pairings to SWA standards and then maybe the company can squeal about how unproductive we are.