Originally Posted by
El10
We are growing at 3% for the year, compared to Delta who is only growing at 1%. Now a lot of that is from higher density seats, but mainline block hours are up YoY and block hours drive manpower requirements.
I'm looking at the block hours for mainline for May 2016 and May 2017 in the SSC reports right now. The block hours for mainline were higher in May of 2016. It will be lower for June 2017 too as we're not flying to AKL this summer and have discontinued some of the seasonal Europe flying that we did last year.