Except that the number of lines is decreasing, which means the amount of flying is decreasing. Unless the are getting rid of older 320s, it makes no sense.

Don’t forget flight ops recently adjusted the flight times on pretty much every flight, cutting out a lot of excess time. I was told this adjustment alone would cause the airline to have fewer block hours this year than last.

06-04-2018 | 12:17 PM

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NYC A320A lines down almost 20% from May to July projection. Every base except SLC (which has a very small uptick) is seeing fewer and fewer lines on the A320 even though we are getting more aircraft. Isn't summer supposed to see an INCREASE in flying?

I think they've turned the optimizer loose. The NYC320 bid packs have turned into a wasteland of uncommutable trash populated by 2-3 legs on the beginning and ending days. Couple that with a decrease in the number of 30 hr layovers has meant a decrease in the ability to string 3,4 and 5 days together. I think their war on credit has shown in the last few months. That's fine....as long as there are no IROPs to ruin their house of cards.

Meh. I'm going min credit and enjoying the summer.

06-04-2018 | 12:41 PM

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Except that the number of lines is decreasing, which means the amount of flying is decreasing. Unless the are getting rid of older 320s, it makes no sense.

Or it means the ALV was increased which I suspect is what happened.

06-04-2018 | 12:42 PM

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I don't think they are retiring the 88's nearly as fast as projected yet. When that changes, the 320 should show a huge increase in block hours.

06-04-2018 | 01:08 PM

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I don't think they are retiring the 88's nearly as fast as projected yet. When that changes, the 320 should show a huge increase in block hours.

Looks like for 320B’s there were 865 actual lines in Jun. They project 839 lines in July. The ALV was increased 6 hours or just over 7%. That would be a loss of 61 lines if system block hours were static or about 804 lines.It looks like block hours are up 3 or 4% not down for 320B’s from June to July. Sounds about What you would expect to see with new aircraft coming online. No black helicopters are hovering!
Edit: ALV increased was actually 5:45 not 6 but does not change the numbers much!

06-04-2018 | 01:34 PM

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Meh. I'm going min credit and enjoying the summer.

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06-04-2018 | 01:40 PM

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Ha! With 5 required and 42 available, bombs away!

06-04-2018 | 04:07 PM

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Off topic question about vacation. I only have 4 days which they assigned me random days in October, can I use those to drop a 4 day trip or 4 days of reserve? Sorry for the newbie question, my mentor is out of town this week otherwise I’d ask him. Thanks!

06-04-2018 | 04:16 PM

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When you bid, you will be preawarded the vacation credit and will be off on the vacation days. You can move them when you bid for your October schedule via vacation slide in PBS. If you decide to do reserve, you will have to look at reserve chart in bid pack to see how many on-call days will be required. 4 vacation days is worth 14 hours.