Originally Posted by
Alan Shore
I do not believe that increasing max reserves costs jobs. To the extent that such an increase causes reserve pilots on an aircraft to work on average even one more minute than they did before, the staffing formula immediately begins to require more pilots on that aircraft.
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If RES increased by 1 minute on average that does not mean the staffing formula immediately required more pilots. We were not bumping up against the staffing formula.
So going from 40 to 41 minutes on average is still far from 60 but now it's fewer pilots required not because pilots are now flying to 99 hours but because they're flying entire trips that once could not have been assigned to them.
Now with the threat of guys timing out gone you need far less coverage.