is there an easy way to find out TPAC hours added by Asiana that aren’t part of the global scope baseline and therefore need to be “plussed up” on our metal somewhere around the globe?

or have their hours added all been absorbed by existing growth and we won’t see anything more?

 

Other than examining each individual flight Asiana does to the U.S. and measuring schedules block hours there is no easy way unfortunately. Also flights that carry a certain percentage of Delta pax even if it doesn’t touch U.S. soil constitutes as “parter flying”.

And, I highly doubt Delta has grown proportionally to Asian’s joining of Skyteam (that growth is yet to be seen). I believe, much of the intl. growth is network simply wanting to expand abroad (as they’ve started intl. growth will be the spear head moving forward). It could also be scope compliance growth via our existing partners growing their WB fleets: AF+KLM+VS+KE, etc..

Remember, global scope protects the company from having to over-staff the WB categories if they fail to deploy appropriate block hours if it is due to known manufacturer delays (e.g. A35K..) You can go to DALPA and click the hyperlink to “scope compliance”. The green light will indicate the company is in compliance (which it is).