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Old 05-14-2012 | 05:29 AM
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Originally Posted by Bill Lumberg
How can you be as productive on a 777 as you can as a SWA pilot in a 737 with 5 legs a day? Delta chose which planes would be used on certain routes, and 737s all the way to Asia just can't do it. 777s have first class cabins and can pull in huge amounts of revenue from cargo uplifted on those longer routes. Southwest just can't do that. You just can't compare SWA pilots to Delta pilots, the operations are different. Just stop that nonsense.
Productivity is a stupid stupid argument that will continually be brought up because that is how we argue pay. MAde sense in the Dark Ages, but not any more... Your argument above illustrates exactly why it is a stupid methodology.