Originally Posted by
sailingfun
Another post with forum histeria without any real thought. As already discussed it requires 3 pilots verses two for each flight on a transcon turn. There has been nothing to stop any airline from flying these as a augmented turn for at least the last 30 years. No airline does them because it makes no sense. Even JetBlue who really wants transcon turns never considered augmenting them.
One other consideration. If Delta did decided to fly transcon turns if your not in the top 20 percent in category don't plan on seeing one. A SFO turn would pay around 12:30. Fly 6 a month and you will have 75 hours. Two three day groupings would look pretty nice as a monthly schedule! Not going to happen however, just to costly for the company
I still think you would need at least 7. If the top 4 As in the 7ER bid these and top 8 Bs, then there is 12 pilots required to make an average ALV on each one of these particular flight numbers (say 3pm out to SFO and 6am back every day for a month). Multiply by 7 a day and you have 84 pilots to fly this route, 28 As and 56 Bs.
What is it currently?
Originally Posted by
Alan Shore
The flaw in your analysis is that jobs are created by block hours flown, not time spent in a hotel. Augmented or not, you have the same number of flight hours. Each and every flight hour today require a Captain and an FO. If such flight hours are augmented tomorrow, each will still require a Captain and will now require two FOs.
The result is the same number of Captains required and more FOs, regardless of where those pilots sleep at night.
See previous post about double crews to see what I am thinking.