Originally Posted by
80ktsClamp
That one hour is significant being spread out over 11,000+ pilots. That right there could postpone hiring by a year...
In Nov. we had 10577 pilots flying the line. 7997 Were line holding pilots.
"Raising the TLV" by an hour would equate to those 7997 pilots averaging one extra hour of LINE CREDIT per month for the year.
ALV only applies to line holders, so therefore 1 hour of LINE building credit per month per year equals a maximum of 12 hours of additional credit per year during the line building process.
Training and Vacation are considered as part of "credit" when determining the ALV.
Training occurs twice a year for every pilot, and 62.8% of those pilots go for 3 days (the rest are in ATL and only go for 2 I think)... Anyways, to be conservative, the increase in training pay of :30 per day is 1.5 hours per year, and 2/3 of that would be 1 hour.
As a group, Delta Pilots are averaging roughly 4 weeks of vacation. The increase in vacation pay is 1.75 hours per week of vacation. For 4 weeks, that is equivalent to 7 hours per year of line credit.
Add it all up and you see that 8:00 of the TLV has just been eaten up with those 2 PWA improvements (there are others ADG, Known absence). So, now we have that 4:00 per line holder per year to deal with:
4:00 x 7997 = 31,998 hours per year.
31,998 / 12 = 2665.6 hours per month
2665.6 / 76 hours for a month = 35 pilot's lines worth of flying
35 / 64 categories = .55 pilots per category
Is the company really getting that much in productivity with 1:00 on the TLV? You be the judge.