Originally Posted by
Timbo
If...as DALPA claims, the new average is 92 hours per month, that is 22% more, per line pilot, than back when we had a 75 hour pay cap.
So, yeah, they would have to hire 22% more pilots, or find another way to make reserves fly more, etc. if we went back to a hard cap of75 hours.
The past 5 years of stagnation is not totally due to age 65. The stagnation was also due to death of the hard 75 hour pay cap.
The only time we had a hard 75 hour cap was with pilots on furlough. We had a flex up to 82 hours at the time. Reserve paid 70-77 hours based on the cap.