Originally Posted by
Alan Shore
Sounds to me as though that's exactly what happened. Marketing wanted to add another 2,500 hours to the schedule and Flight Ops said, "No can do." If there was mathematically no way to add that much time to the schedule without violating the staffing formula with its ALV/TLV restrictions, would we have been happier if Delta had scheduled the hours anyway?
My point is FltOps should be more involved in the planning process earlier on so they could see things like this coming.
Waiting to hear what marketing may want to do, and only finding out after its too late to be able to do it, is in no one's best interest. If FltOps had more say and involvement, we may have been able to head that little debacle off at the pass and tell the tail wagging the dog that we needed to hire sooner/more and we could have done that flying and gotten that revenue.