Originally Posted by
gettinbumped
It really does make our TA look rather thin.
That said, scroll down to Scope. Express flying can be 65% of the mainline narrowbody flying?????? Holy MOLY that's atrocious. The pie chart I saw for our TA has us going from 57% UAX - 43% UAL narrow to 63% UAL narrow - 37% UAX by 2016.
Read that again:
Regional feed aircraft limited to 65 percent of mainline narrow body fleet count
There's a difference between "flying" that you mention and "fleet count" as is described above. The devil is in the details. If they have 100 narrow body "aircraft" the total regional feed is limited to 65 aircraft. Doesn't say anything about how much this is restricted to. It could be 40% of the total flying hours. That's why you need both. I think the 65% lacks context if it also doesn't put a block-hour flying ratio in there like ours does.