Originally Posted by
80ktsClamp
Agreed... So, once the fleet hits the projected 796 aircraft- what is our pool on how many pilots that actually takes?
Will we actually make it back to the pre-merger 12,434 pilot count with 30 more aircraft than we had pre-merger?
All things being equal:
Fleet . . Pilots . . Ratio
767 . . 12,434 . . 16.21 (merger ratio)
720 . . 11784 . . 16.37 (current ratio)
[email protected] = 12,903 (merger ratio)
[email protected] = 13,030 (current ratio)
The question is, if we are overstaffed with 11,784 pilots and a fleet of 720 jets, what level are we overstaffed by?
The 15 pilots/plane number was bantered about in the 717 fleet discussion. Some fleets might be lower, with augmented crews some fleets are higher, so its's about a wash. At a ratio of 16 pilots/plane you got quite a few guys in training but that's not an unlikely scenario...
Current
[email protected] = 11,520 (that would mean we are overstaffed by 264 right now)
Future
[email protected] = 12,736 or roughly +1000
Cheers
George