Originally Posted by
Bill Lumberg
George doesn't take into account any hiring and training with regard to staffing or minimum 50 hours per month. Just think about how much training, sims, waiting for IOE, etc with 88 717s, more MD90s, and 3 737-900s coming per month. I have a feeling 60 hours will be broken, and the reserve manning will have to be increased per the TA. Then throw in retirements in a few years, for a decade. If you are a reserve then, when 700 guys retire per year, then that will be by your own choice.
Bill,
If you are talking about the Reason #9 Slide, you have misread it.
The sole purpose of that slide is to show how the staffing formula of 60/hrs reserve doesn't provide nearly the "protection" it is rumored to have.
The 60/hrs/reserve average for all reserves is a catastrophic protection in our PWA. I'm glad we have it. But if breaking the 60hrs annual average for all reserves is what it takes to get Delta to start hiring, then God-bless-us-all!
Cheers
George