Originally Posted by
sailingfun
The last year with full data was 2012. There was only one airline less efficient then us that year. It was HA. Probably lots of credit in inter island flying. We were well below everyone else.
There is a point made by another poster I did not consider. We had and have outstanding anti furlough provisions. That forced Delta to over man the airline and would impact those numbers. The data for 2013 hopefully will bring us more into line with other airlines.
2012? What were the other airlines doing back then?
SWA/Air Tran
United/Continental
American/US Airways
We were fully merged, fully integrated, and flying every non-fenced aircraft fleet together. United just got their seniority list together.
Now that all of these other airlines have started the process to merge, I bet they will be less efficient.
(Compared to how the other airline mergers have been going, you should probably be making the argument that we are among the most efficient pilots in the world.)
With that being said, I wouldn't be all that afraid to go to the NMB to fight an efficiency argument that the company poses. IMO (for index
), we could easily win that one.