Originally Posted by
TED74
We have five thousand more pilots than we did a decade ago. Everyone always talks about being undermanned, but we’re actually just overextended. We are trying to do more flying than we’re manned for, which has happened when we had 12k pilots and could happen if/when we have 20k pilots.
Just remember that management doesn’t want to pay pilots to sit at home. But what you need to fly a reliable operation…is pilots getting paid to sit at home. Their head-in-the-sand decisions have simply changed what sitting at home getting paid now looks like - it’s more expensive than it should be, and it’s also less effective at covering flying.
Delta could slash capacity for July-August and salvage operational metrics, get paying customers where they paid to be and when they paid to be there. But they won’t.
It’s going to be brutal on our customers, and lucrative for the pilots. Oh well.
120-130,000 of Delta’s passengers have had their flight cancelled in the past month. Historically very bad. But, over the same time period the other 15.3 million passengers are getting where they need to go early relative to the competition.
130,000/15.3M past month. How many of those 130,000 are fortress hub, CC/FF, and/or network captives that don’t have a choice? Even more so now that Spirit is gone.