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Old 02-28-2012 | 04:54 AM
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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.
I don't understand. "A large amount of overtime flying" implies that Delta doesn't have enough pilots to support the schedule with everyone flying a normal load. Why would we pilots expect to be penalized for this?

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