Originally Posted by sailingfun

Your confusing system block hours with pilot block hours. They are different numbers. The system block hours are way down however with the shift of a large number of airframes to international which resulted in a large increase in utilization rates combined with the need for 3 or even 4 pilots per aircraft the decrease in actual pilot block hours has not been that great.
As far as work rules you pointed out just a few. Let me add a few more.
Vacation loss
Pilot instructor job loss
Training scheduling
Homestudy training
New reserve system resulting in much higher reserve utilization
No Cap for trip swaps
No Cap for pickups from swap board.
Paid for every hour flown. No carry over above the cap to next month.
Elimination of spillback
All training and vacation pay no credit
Relaxed reroute rules
Recovery flying

Those are just off the top of my head. Every one of them cost us jobs. We are 20 to 25% more efficient then the past. Again the math is not hard.