Originally Posted by RedeyeAV8r
OK Son
Airline Aircraft CAPT/hr FO/hr
Airtran 737/717 153 79
JET B 320 139 76
CAL 737 144 98
Frontier 320 157 94UAL 320/737 129 88
DAL (currently) 737/md80 134 92
SWA 737 190 126
NWA 320 137 93
USAIr 320/737 125 95
I think what we really need to be looking at is what labor costs per CASM at each airline. If the pilots and other labor at legacy carriers are paid less than Southwest, yet the labor portion of the CASM is higher, what does that tell us? Maybe there are to many high paid chiefs and not enough indians.