Originally Posted by
dbo861
I haven't heard this. From what I've heard, scheduling will fly your @ss off, but once you get your 100 hours, they hardly use you at all until you get a line. A guy in my crash pad has only flown 20 hours in July. Also, if you look at most airlines, they have an average of 10 pilots per aircraft in the fleet. At Comair, we have 130ish planes and over 1600 pilots. I really don't think there's much of a staffing problem now.
Your right we have only cancelled a handful of flights for crew availabilty. However we have been downsizing alot of flight to 50 seaters, cause of lack of F.O. in the 70 seaters. However alot of new F.O. coming online in a few weeks so hopefully it should balance it self out soon.
JFK is kicking are A$S with the time out issues.