Originally Posted by
scambo1
I can imagine that if aircraft utilization numbers went up, it would make money to offset the personnel costs.
How would augmenting the flight increase utilization? The only time I see the company doing this is so they can fly a market 1 to 3 days a week and have it fly as a turn. That way they avoid having to pay 5:15 per day while the crew sits on a 3 day layover in Punta something! I suspect these will me more Latin and short SA trips. Still lots of issues for the company to resolve before we fly them. On the narrow bodies only the 17 757ER's have a rest seat.