Originally Posted by
Laker24
Actually according to the latest contract comparison Delta has 14,600 active pilots vs 14,599 active pilots at AA...The kicker is that Delta has about 70 fewer aircraft. Clearly something much bigger is driving jobs. I’m guessing it’s crew scheduling’s ability to use 10,000+ line holders as ready reserves. We go out on a pairing as a line holder not knowing where we will fly or even what day we will get home. If AA wanted to drive more jobs they could start by fixing our bottom of the barell scheduling rules.
This is what I was trying to say, bc it appears Delta’s make money rules are not really costing them pilot jobs when you look at the pilot to aircraft numbers...their management, however, probably is comfortable with staffing their aircraft at a high level than ours for reliability.