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Originally Posted by flight0813
The thread is about Delta staffing, Why are you using regional numbers in your calculation for seniority? No hating here, just curious.
Because I wanted the drive-by post of the day. Go in and make a mess and drive off.
Well, actually no. I said it because the filter in my head was bypassed when I saw an opportunity to poke at those who don't want "regional jets" at mainline and I wanted them to see how many people we could have had.
So if anyone thinks that was aimed at regional pilots guess again. I don't know of too many regional pilots who would not prefer to see mainline carriers expand by 30% or more.
Now, who's to blame? Anyone who SAID or still says I don't want to fly regional jets at mainline.
And thats not always senior folks, we've got way way too many middle and junior folks who'd say "I didn't come to Delta to fly small jets" or "I already did the RJ thing, I'm not flying that stupid DC9 or MD88."
Its a fight to change minds going forward and for the most part mission accomplished believe it or not but unfortunately whats done is done and 70-76 seaters will stay right where they are.
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Originally Posted by PILEOAV8R
The 70 to 76 seat jets are more along the lines of 5 - 6 crews per airplane... so cut your number in half...
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Originally Posted by dojetdriver
I understand all that. As widebody/international needs are way different than narrow body/domestic, etc. But if you took the pilot breakdown of say the MD80-90 series, or DC-9's, any idea what it comes out to be?
Again, just curious.
Domestic is 6-7 crews per plane according to Dec 2010 staffing forecast, international is about 30 pilots to a plane but remember the ULH birds have two complete crews (2 CAs and 2 FOs) while the 330, 764, 767 are generally 1 CA and 2 FOs with many exceptions. The other issue is we have what was traditionally an international only category (7ER) replacing domestic categories (767) which makes it hard to determine the numbers.
By December we'll have 10,500 pilots flying and 12,221 on staff. Thats 14 pilots per plane flying or 17 on the list per plane.
Now, to do some number crunching on DCI size...