Originally Posted by
Carl Spackler
I'm not understanding the math here. Since 40 is four times as much as 10, you're saying one 777 produces the same number of pilots as four DC-9's. I just looked at the category lists for February and found the following:
744's = 16. 199A's, and 251B's for a total of 450 pilots.
DC-9's = 34. 195A's and 188B's for a total of 383 pilots.
So we have twice as many DC-9's as we do 744's, yet we only have a little over twice the number of pilots on the 744. Using your math, we should have 720 pilots on the 744. Instead we only have 450.
What am I missing here alfa?
Carl
Carl, you're missing the fact that alfa was talking about 777s, not 747s. We have 18 777s and on the Feb category list 627 pilots, for an average of 34.8 pilots/acft. Using your numbers, the DC9 has 11.3 pilots/acft.
So, alfa rounded it to 4x when apparently its actually about 3.1 -- still pretty significant difference.