Originally Posted by
sailingfun
I have also heard that the overall cost per block hour numbers for 2011 especially between DAL and SWA will be surprising and not in our favor with openers being exchanged. We had a large amount of overtime flying in 2011 combined with the 4 percent raise moved the DAL number up quite a bit more then SW. We are not ahead of them but the difference narrowed a lot.
Sailing,
Isn't that a result of inefficiency due to shrinkage? My Delta experience has not been particularly productive, with 4 full aircraft training courses in < 5 years as a result of repeated displacements.
(figuring March bid will be another displacement)
If so, they need to penalize our management; since a Google search of "
Delta Air Lines Growth" gets the same number of results as "
French Military Victories."
... actually, Air France has scored flying from us ... so maybe this example is even worse a comparison than initially conceptualized.