Originally Posted by
FangsF15
Ok, thanks, I did miss the small/fine print for the infamous MIT study. FYI, the figure I have seen at DL is much, much closer to SWA's 53.1 than stated in the MIT study. I can't see deep enough into the methodology of the MIT study to know if that is apples/apples with each figure. But I submit that the MIT study is off, at least on this metric. Maybe a difference in the figure I have seen is controlling for lower productivity SLI/CPO? Or zero productivity Sick/disability pilots? I dunno. There are some inefficiencies at DL for multiple aircraft types (and associated training churn). Just FYI
I’m sure it’s possible that the MIT researchers who put together the data missed something and/or the data has changed since 2018. But it was the most recent and most credible information I could find.