Originally Posted by GeeWizDriver

I think you're on to something here. Certainly the modification of required PPA on disposal fleets was designed to make those fleets leaner as they draw down rather that the overly generous staffing that existed when the first airplane went into disposal.

My fleet under the previous contractual minimum was 6.8. New contractual minimum is 5.0 for disposal fleets. Including those currently on LOA, my fleet now is at 5.3 PPA. Counting honest-to-god active pilots, we're at 4.4. Contractually compliant, operationally difficult.

The entire purpose was to re-arrange the deck chairs a bit and leave them a LOT more wiggle room to match staffing to demand across ALL fleets.