Originally Posted by
sailingfun
Don't know the actual pilot numbers at SW. However you would have to remove all pilots on MLOA, Sick, personal leaves, administrative pilots ect. from their total. To get a accurate number if you comparing our category numbers. What I am saying is you have to compare actual working pilots. Your number compares all pilots at SWA to only working pilots at Delta. We have about 15 percent of our pilots out on long term leaves, furlough bypass and disability ect.. I suspect SW has about the same.
FWIW, we'd be even if you added a 9% jump in staffing to those numbers I posted.
A 14-15% jump would bring us up to around 11.3 pilots or .57 pilots more per plane than they run. Or put another way, if they ran with 11.3 pilots they'd need to add 5% or 327 pilots to their 6104 to staff 568 airplanes.
I'd say even in that case the numbers are close when we compare similar mission aircraft.