Originally Posted by
sailingfun
You are lumping our domestic 757/767 fleet into your numbers and applying it to the Md88. Our Md88 utilization rate is very low at the moment. That's not valid. The average daily numbers comparing like sized small narrow bodies I posted.
In the end however the only valid way to compare pilot productivity is block hours per pilot. SW enjoys a huge advantage in that department.
Couple of things, it's hard to do a comparison of like sized narrow bodies between a fleet that consists mostly of 737-700 sized airplanes paying the same as our 747s and a fleet of MD88s and 90s that are larger who pay less. I agree.
Did you see the numbers I posted? It's based off of the numbers SWA posted.
As to 88 utilization, at the moment (February) or for the year? I remember hearing over 50% of the departures in ATL last summer were to be MD88s. When one of ours breaks in ATL is seems as if it's hard to find another.
We've heard the 757s in Asia are inefficient, but they're lumped into the domestic BH number (the one used for the DCI ratio). Some of the 757s are old too are they not? Are they being used to their max?
And the 753s seem to fly a lot from ATL-MCO, that's not a long flight. Some of those 737s and 757s are running common 88 rotations as well.
So unless you have annual MD88 hours, I'm going to use the average.