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But on the 88/90, which flies a near identical mission to SWAs 737 fleet, we are running about 4.9-4.8 crews vs SWAs 5.6 crews.
And that's set to go lower if as they said in the crew planning newsletter they reduce staffing further on that jet even with more 90s coming.
But if we went up to SWAs 5.6, we could soon add almost 370 pilots alone just for the 88.
I'm not sure if the missions are near-identical. They also fly much longer legs than the 88/90 could ever fly. So maybe a mix of 88, 737, A320, and 757 missions. Maybe that mix gets them much higher utilization rates per airplane?