Originally Posted by
Vikz09
Sailing,
Why would management twice now, try and push away from the EASK metric to a block hour metric. It certainly isn't because they want bigger and bigger airframes. You would be wrong on the 737- Max 10. Boeing is talking about 4500 NM range. Chicago to Rome is 4200 NM. That leaves many city pairings in between. East coast to many cities in Europe is well within the range.
A rational pay methodology will fix that. If they want to pay me $350/hour to fly a 737 to FCO, bring 'em on. It would cost even more next year, and the year after and the year after.
That being said, the loss of economy of scale would be staggeringly stupid, and much to the chagrin of the forums, management isn't stupid.