Originally Posted by
acl65pilot
It has nothing to do with the TA. It has more to do with implementation of LOA 29 and the schedulers learning curves, which they are overcoming. A year ago we were utilizing twice as many reserves as planned. Part of the issue was reserve base utilization and the other part was breaking trips up, when that was not necessarily required. They have worked in these two areas and as a result, reserves are working more in line with where the company wants their utilization.
There is one other major factor in reserve use. The last 16 months have had the least weather issues in the last 10 years for Delta. I did not deice once last winter. They quickly ran out of reserves with some thunderstorm issues in June. Weather has a huge overall impact on the number of reserves needed. If we go back to more normal weather patterns they will quickly find themselves short.