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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.
Our 88/90 fleet is being way underutilized so your numbers don't have any meaning. The number used to measure productivity that is valid is block hours flown per pilot.
2011 numbers
SWA 62.1
DAL 42.9
Those numbers are being skewed some because Delta was carrying a greater surplus of pilots then SWA however we are no where near their level of productivity. 2012 numbers are not out yet.