Originally Posted by
sailingfun
We really need the data for 2010 since in 08 and 09 we were carrying a lot of extra pilots do to the drawdown in flying. It would be better to see the 2010 data verses SWA to understand how we relate on productivity.
Yeah I would also like to see narrow body fleet only numbers with all training other than recurrent and upgrade backed out. That would give a much truer comparison. Yes there is a cost for training with a lot of fleet types, but there is revenue opportunity there as well and it is not a fair comparison. If DL went to a single fleet type it would have to slash it routes and revenue so this bogus MBA 101 regurgitation about how great SWA is because of one fleet type just isn't relevant in context. I bet if you isolated each fleet type (737, 320, M88) you would see significantly higher per pilot productivity.