Originally Posted by
WhatNow
Easy, you were under utilizing the air frames. At the road shows flight ops was just a bit upset about the 2017 747 block hour plan. You might have noticed they awarded new bids on the 747 and there may be more to come. They are hurting with only 1 sim.
I did notice the last AE, one guy does not make a training bonanza. He was just a back fill for Captains that bid off due to sitting reserve for the first time in a 35 year career!
As far as block hour utilization rates, its hard to fly a jet 12 hours to NRT, turn it, and fly 10.5 hours back and get much more out of it. Winter is where the block hours got squirrely, three air frames to fly the Pacific.
We are hurting so badly with one sim, they are leasing our spare time to United! It does limit us to two crews per month though (4 pilots)