Originally Posted by
crewdawg
Yikes. What gives them the ability to do that? I know they had a pretty crappy duty period minimum which required about an extra 3-day/month to get what we do. Not sure if that changed in their last contract. If not, we'd need to take a pretty solid concession to get back down to AAL.
I think we also are able to reliably fly our aircraft more block hours per day than they are, which translates to more crews required per a/c as well.