it's interesting to me. I can see 7 crews per 717 to cover deliveries and then the ratio dropping later. Same with the 737 with its deliveries. So yeah, "the 717 means 14 pilots per plane... but only while we build the category."

I just have a sneaking suspicion the 320 is headed towards the 88's number. The 320 has gone from 6 crews to 5.6 crews and there talking about getting rid of more FOs.

What is SWA's ratio of pilots to planes? Let me go look... apc says 6,327 pilots and 565 speed demon 737s. That comes out to 5.59 crews per plane vs the 88's current 4.8.

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Bingo. Why people continuously fall for these things is beyond me.

Beware the Latency, like a call from the CPO if you are even one minute late!:eek: I had to go look at my rotation to see that we were late.

You guys must have missed this: "We feel like we can go through the entire spring and summer schedule without 200 qualified and current pilots in the DC9, MD88, 737 and 320."

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No! Really?!

This is going to be weird....and wrong. Targeting the wrong employee group!

You got a phone call for a late out? Did "you reap what you sew" enter the conversation?

It was my first airline gig, and I learned to love it, but the flying was much different when I was on it. We rarely had more than three legs a day, and we'd usually have at least one decent long layover on a three day trip. Back-to-back 5 legs with sub 12 hour layovers would be hard to swallow. I know, I'm lazy.

I'm not a CA, but I've been doing this for three decades plus. Empower us to fly safely, ask us to do gate PAs and represent the company, I actually get all that and am board. NOW, we wait for all of the ACS elements to perfectly align (i.e., we can't canjole them into action as we almost always have to do), and WE'RE frikkin late?

No sir and no ma'am! Ain't us!

We do have delay codes for the acars.

But a phone call? I guess we know what the new crisis du jour is.:rolleyes: I guess we need a new line check blitz.

I think we should get those phone calls when we are reviewing the performance numbers, just in time to be confused on whether or not the "flaps" were called for. If you answer they can also gig you for forgetting to turn off your cell phone.

Almost every phone call to a pilot about a late push is because ACS has coded it as a pilot delay. The cpo is only calling to make sure we are not taking a hit for a delay that was not ours. They are not on a pilot witch hunt.