Orvil,

I don't agree with your post. Sailing is putting out good information as usual, although I disagree with his take on it. He is being challenged as he should be, but why make disagreement a personal issue?

In my opinion the "efficiency" issue is front and center in management's playbook for C2015, that it why it is good information. Sailing is previewing an argument we will hear a lot about, "We the Delta Pilot group are inefficient."

I and others have repeatedly challenged this by pointing out there are many ways to define efficiency and if we let management define the issues as they see fit we will not do well.

Where I have trouble with Sailing on this issue is that he seems to accept block hours as the defining metric of pilot group efficiency. It is definitely "a" measure of productivity but so are a lot of other metrics.

I say "seems to accept" because he has not yet responded on this specific point.


I have brought up the issue of revenue produced per Pilot as a measure of Pilot productivity. George has brought up the CASM metric as another viable metric.

The fact that we are discussing this now may better enable us as a Pilot group to prepare our response when management makes these arguments as they surely will.

In a related issue sick time usage will also surely be a lively topic in C2015. Just as we should not let management define Pilot productivity as block hours per Pilot, we should not let management directly compare our sick time usage with other Pilot groups that have a sick bank.

Scoop