Originally Posted by
DashAviator
Sorry, that WAS an estimate. I'm pretty sure about the number of jets, but the number of Q400's seems to be a moving target. At any given time, we have Q400's at the paint shop, down for heavy maintenance, or parked while awaiting a new home.
A quick look for Monday shows 26 E’s and 29 Q’s flying the line. That’s a total off 55. Being we typically have 2-3 Q spares and. Similar number in heavy MTX puts us at the 60-62 aircraft fleet.
My bigger point is we are very overstaffed. Why? AAG is focused on never having another QX flight cancelled because of lack of crews. This is why we have so many reserve lines. Only so much scheduled flying to go around. We have to have a large slush of pilots to account for a large amount of unpredictable attrition.