Originally Posted by
Andy
Since they're delivering ~2 777s per month starting in December, I'd expect training to temporarily overstaff the 777 so that there are adequate crews to fly all of the new metal. I don't know how fast new crews can be trained but staffing 2 new aircraft a month sounds like a bit more than they can handle in the training pipeline.
Maybe that explains the over staffing of IAH 777. they have the crews trained and ready to go. Likely they'll just build those trips out of IAH and DH crews to ORD and SFO.