Originally Posted by Scoop

Jack,

I think you are mostly correct. Reserves will be flying their tails off in the high volume (Summer/spring break) months, but mostly sitting on their tails during the down times.

One of the main themes of our new contract was increasing the ability of the company to work the heavy months with fewer guys - this will result in what you say for the summer months but I dont think it will be too bad in the off months.

Due to this it only makes sense for the company to try to push most of the training and IOEs to the off months which may increase pilot utilization somewhat in the off months. But once we start hiring and doing a lot of IOEs hopefully being on reserve for over a year will only be for the guys that want to fly reserve.

Scoop