Originally Posted by
sailingfun
You did not understand the data. They stated the company would have to add 6 to 7 flights a day in the last year to bring the average up to be in compliance. That number was actually up to something around 14 departures per day in Aug. The less time left the more departures they would have to add to be in compliance. The overall rate for the entire period was just under two departures per day. With the AF strike that dropped to closer to one per day if you average it over the 4 years. I think however you could make a case before the arbitrator that the shutdown of AF for several weeks should not count as it was a aberration not considered by either side when the agreement was made.
I was just emailed more numbers but they match what I posted. Just prior to the AF strike we were just over 47% of the EASK which gave us over 65% of the actual block hours. To be contractually compliant the company needed to raise that to 48.5%. With 40 to 50 departures per day it's not hard to see that two more departures per day would have produced the percentage the company needed.
Negative my friend. I understand the data full well.
A year or so into the first 3-year look-back window (2011?) RD told the MEC that to get from 47.2% to 50% would require the addition of 6-7 daily roundtrips over the course of the 3-year agreement, this wasn't a power point presentation.
Again the percentages have been accrued over years, so no, just adding a flight isn't going to magically make a 3-year lookback come up to meet the PWA test.
Even without the numbers its not hard to figure this out.
Adding Alitalia to the JV dropped our share by just over 4% points.
To claw back just 1% Delta would have to add around one quarter of all of Alitalia's North Atlantic flights.
And since our North Atlantic fleet produces fewer EASKs per departure than the fleet of the Europeans, that means even more Delta flights just to produce an equivalent number of EASKs.
Again, these are RDs numbers my friend. He said we would see 6-7 added flights over the course of the 3-year agreement.
They aren't here, and the list of excuses just keeps getting longer.
Cheers
George