Originally Posted by
gtechpilot
And you have the numbers to back this up? Besides pointing to the -700/900 that the company is keeping overstaffed for some reason?
How do the numbers work out when you start to look at relief line holders? Or are they considered full line holders in your estimations?
Yep, sure do. But you wouldn't have to take my word for it. You can contact your scheduling guys. Specifically the ones that are doing research/due dilligence into the various ways to bid/staff, the pros and cons of each system, seeing if maybe there's a better software out there, etc.
Wait, the CRJ NEVER had that, sorry, my bad.
But YES, the CRJ side runs the SAME, if not more pilots than the ERJ as far as percentage of reserves go. In fact, take a look at last December I believe it was on the -200 in ATL. Tell me what the reserve percentage was then? You really don't want to know.
And yes, relief pilots are line holders, they're not sitting around on reserve, are they?