Can you put some more perspective? How many hours roughly do the NB fleets fly in a month on avg?

They told most sim instructors will be in department this Summer for what it's worth.

Weird, a recent DCLC course was told we are pulling 757's out of the desert to meet increased summer block hours.

So they upped the TLV for this year to cut back flying? Doesn't square up.


Heard the same from my sources. Much to do about the MAX 10 and 321 NEO delivery delays.

320 and 73 both had small decreases in the single digit percentages compared to April. Something like 2-4% from what I can tell. Not much, and that might not be final. 717 remained remarkable constant. ER and 220 actually did go up a little which is interesting. Without looking, I think the 320 had something like 245000 credit hours in April.

TLV's are rolling 12 month averages, they are actively fighting the TLV limit and had to make small cuts on the 73 last month to stay under the TLV. Most of the TLV's are actually fairly safe from getting busted. They are "historically low" according to the company :-/

This is a change in the last week or so. Very recent. And as I'm sure is engraved somewhere on the floor on the 4th floor "Subject to Change"

The Network planning info still show a small net increase in block hours month to month but those can lag behind actual as they update them less frequently. There will be more changes between now and publish, but just a FYI as things are coming together, it will probably be a little anti-climactic. Shouldn't be a huge increase as we head into summer and it won't be a huge 5% across the board drawdown like UAL. But we will see.

We'll see what happens. Interesting times.

I hope we either cut back hours on the 737 or hire/upgrade way more. We're so short staffed it's brutal! Reroutes and GS/QS all over the place! Good money though I guess...

yea last time I bid reserve, I was rerouted 100% of my reserve assignments for the month. Good money. But man that wears on you

That's a crazy stat. I've bid/been reserve for cumulative years and have never had a month where 100% of my reserve assignments had reroutes. Maybe 1 or 2 trips, but all of them? I'd call that an anomaly (and possibly deserving of a trophy.)

I cleared over 200 hours this month. 73NB.

They're allowed like once every 3 years to crank it up, they are doing that for 2026. Again, I am hjghly suspect of your information posted here. Seems stupid to crank it up this year and then you telling us they've pulled back. Doesn't square. At all.

You're looking at projections, it's been discussed here before, the numbers you saw for april and may are highly subject to change from the original questimate, that changes all the time (usually upwards). I would never say those are absolutes. Ever.