Originally Posted by
APC225
Reserves were flown on about 36% of their days and last year flew 374 hard hours. I'm sure people in the tower see that and say what a waste.
One stat they don't show (or track?) is how many days nearly 100% of reserves flew. Those are the meltdown days when you lose money, business, and the PR battle.
Oh, and 7426 SCs and 918 FSBs in April alone.
I don't know, is the "goal" to fly reserves as close to 100% as possible? Or is the goal to have crews available when needed?
If you start using the reserves as partial line holders you start to loose the flexibility you WILL need from time to time.
Which brings up another question, when there is so much summer flying going on, wouldn't it be better to increase the amount of lines? I believe it's contractual to have a certain percentage of reserves. Wouldn't flexibility in this be something that would benefit both the company and crews?