Originally Posted by
Free Bird
I think this summer is going to see the most Green Slips that we've seen in the last 4-5 years. At the last 44 LEC meet it was mentioned than mainline block hours in July will actually be up over last year.
I'm not sure what's up with the 88B RES in ATL but the utilization is way up from a year ago. I can't believe how many guys are in bucket 2 and 3 in one of our slowest months of the year. A year ago many reserves didn't work, this year it's not uncommon to see greenslips going out for the 88B's from time to time.
IMO the hiring question will be painfully clear to management by the end of the summer.
Yes. And I think the reserve utilization increase during high demand periods remains mostly theoretical. In my experience (combined decade on reserve across two carriers) the schedules just are not efficient enough to achieve the max allowed before running into FAR or physiological limitations.
I've done a >24 hour duty day as a result of a late day short call into an flag operation and it was not a good idea. Legal, but not smart.