Originally Posted by
Pilot4000
Does the airbus fleet have such high time lines?
For SFO CA, yes.
This month are some of the worst lines I've seen in around a decade. Very few lines below 80. Most of the bottom half of lineholders are at 89+.
And this is only March.
I haven't looked at other BESs, but if you go to the System Documents tab in PBS and look at PBS G Line and Bidding Parameter Document, you'll see that many BESs had an LCF of 78, LCA of 84, and LCC of 90. That's bad if you don't want to work all the time.
With an average of 84,the bottom half of lineholders are going to be close to the LCC because the top lineholders will be asking for flying closer to the LCF.
This is not a sustainable pace and United will have to either reduce block hours or get a whole lot more pilots checked out and flying the line. It looks like it's going to be a brutal summer.
Originally Posted by
C11DCA
Take a look at the G line document. That will show every seat/ fleet planned flying hours for PBS build.
It looks bad for everyone except 777.