Originally Posted by
BoilerUP
5-6 crews per airframe is "industry standard" for domestic regional flying...getting up near 10 crews means abnormally high airframe utilization or international flying. As an example, I believe the MD11 at UPS was around 13 crews per airframe not too long ago.
RJET had 226 aircraft per their last 10-Q...at 7 crews per airplane that would be 3164 pilots. At 5.5 crews per airplane, that number would be 2486.
How many pilots does RAH have?
Right around 2150 as of now, so that works out to just under 5 crews/plane...but by the end of the year I believe they are supposed to be at about 210 airframes, so basically they are roughly 5 crews/frame