Originally Posted by
Toejam
So I was wondering...
I noticed the reduced number of lines for April versus March, and I did a little calculation. THe international aircraft are mostly stable across the bases, maybe a 1% drop. The domestic aircraft are down abut 8% across the bases. The bases are not 8%, but overall it is about that number. So is big D reducing domestic capacity 8%, or moving more of the trips to other non-mainline aircraft? Or is my math wrong...
Hopefully this is not a trend.
I don't think you can really get any idea from looking at the number of trips. What you need to find out is the hours flown. They could have reduced the shorter trips and made more long trips, thus reducing number of trips.
One thing that was nice at fNWA was each month, the bid packets identified the actual block hours for the month for both A's and B's.