I am relatively new here and have $?0,000 set aside for a strike fund. My wife wants to spend it!!! Thanks to guys like dal88 who bought all my beer I can afford to fight for higher pay. If we don't need to strike ill buy a couple kegs and some strippers.

600 FNWA guys have taken early outs, yet I've only moved up 140 numbers since the SLI. (I'm at 12% on the list)

It seems to me that the majority of the pull and plug guys are still here, and a large number of guys that took the early outs were fairly junior.

Also, a good friend of mine-- pre merger Delta-- left during the first early out program. He was one of many PMDL to do so.

I don't want to rehash the seniority debate, but I have to raise the BS flag on this post.

I'm pretty sure there were only about 169ish that took the second early out package.

Those are good data points Sailing, especially considering Delta has significantly bigger jets than Southwest that carry more people and go further.

If we flip the numbers around and look at production here's what it looks like:

2010 Production
(for every dollar spent on pilot compensation, heres how many ASMs were produced)

DAL 93.2 $/ASM
SWA 70.6 $/ASM

That means SWA got 32% fewer ASMs from every dollar of pilot pay than Delta did in 2010.

System Total Revenue per ASM:
DAL 12.39¢/ASM
SWA 12.26¢/ASM

Or put another way:
Delta makes about the same money off each ASM as Southwest, yet Delta pilots are providing a 30% subsidy to Delta's pilot portion of CASM. thus enabling inefficiencies in cost in other departments.


Cheers
George

Let's also not forget all of the DL pilots who spend a month or two in training to transition aircraft every year. That no doubt waters down the average number of hrs flown per pilot. It was mgt's decision to have so many types on property and should thus deal with the costs.

WN pilots have traditionally, up until their merger goes through, gone to training twice in a 30+ yr career. Once as a new hire and again to upgrade if they choose to do so. Recurrent training not withstanding, obviously.

What a night of baseball. Wow.

The braves blew it. poop.

I blame me actually turning on the tv for the first time this season. Not a big baseball guy, but figured I should tune in for this one.

I turned on the tv, and they lost the lead.


You senior people, what does this tell you about me bidding to an airbus? beware!!!

Scambo,

Throughout the survey after each major section there are blocks where you can write in text to include with your survey.

Speaking of baseball - I have a feeling the Yankees are not too bummed to lose, and have Tampa in the playoffs instead of the Sox. ;)

Scoop

Bwahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!!!!!!!

Ima bump dat!!!

I'm guessing the vast majority of that differential is because we have 8 or so more fleet types than they do and therefore have way more pilots in training at any given time. That also helps us produce more revenue than they do though, so that helps our case for more pilot compensation not hurt it. Plus I bet we have way more deadheads as well, not sure if that counts towards "pilot block hours" or not but in any case 9 fleet types versus 1 = mass quantities of pilots in training flying zero block hours yet we still pull down more revenue per pilot.

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