Anecdotal, to be sure, but I’d say my own pilot productivity has gone up quite a bit, and entirely against my will:

I usually start my work week every Monday with an all-nighter, and have been doing the same for a couple years. When I started doing it, it was normal to recover from that first long night with a leisurely day two of the trip entirely off, enjoying all the festivities downtown Chicago, Boston, or Manhattan could offer.

Those days are gone. Rarely do I get trips with the second day off: now it’s a short day-over at the airport hotel and then one or two legs that night. That’s doing far more work than I was before for essentially the same pay. I still prefer it because I get paid for 4 days of work when I’m only gone 3 days, but it’s been far less of a gentlemanly schedule since Kirby showed up and started tweaking the system.

It goes without saying that more productivity per pilot equals less pilots needed. We may indeed be growing block-hour wise, but I don’t think our pilot group growth is commensurate.