Originally Posted by
sailingfun
Looks like for 320B’s there were 865 actual lines in Jun. They project 839 lines in July. The ALV was increased 6 hours or just over 7%. That would be a loss of 61 lines if system block hours were static or about 804 lines.It looks like block hours are up 3 or 4% not down for 320B’s from June to July. Sounds about What you would expect to see with new aircraft coming online. No black helicopters are hovering!
Edit: ALV increased was actually 5:45 not 6 but does not change the numbers much!
From a line perspective, looks like "all the above." Block times are definitely tighter. The 320 on-time numbers must be awful. That jet literally has more computers controlling the lavs than the 737 has total computers (don't believe me, defer the CIDS).
On the weekends - fughettabouit.
Layover times are down a couple of hours & ALV is up. The company is doing more with less and taking the hit in operational stats. Richard Anderson was an operations-minded man. Ed Bastian is a numbers man. These schedules feel like what schedules at the regionals felt like when we were Ed & Leo's lab rats.
As things stand now, when you are late a minute you might as well be late three hours. Nobody hustles once they've lost the "on time" until they figure you are about to time out. Then they find a little spring to their step rather than deal with 200 po'd people.
We've been into "extensions" 3 times in the last 30 days. Should be a rare occurrence; it is not.
Flight Operations management was beating the drum for a better system to emphasize and recover late flights when we are slightly behind schedule. Sincerely hoping their efforts yield results. Nobody likes being late.