Tracking Regional Outsourcing
Per the McClatchy Washington Bureau, if you ignore all daily outsourced regional flights than SWA is the largest major airline in the US by number of daily mainline flights. More so than American, "Delta and United have a greater share of their total [daily] flights operated by regional partners."
http://media.mcclatchydc.com/smedia/...PrcN.La.91.jpg American Total Daily Flights: 6,446 Mainline Flights: 3,055 — 47% Outsourced Flights: 3,391 — 53% Delta Total Daily Flights: 4,684 Mainline Flights: 2,149 — 46% Outsourced Flights: 2,535 — 54% United Total Daily Flights: 5,024 Mainline Daily Flights: 1,735 — 35% Outsourced Daily Flights: 3,289 — 65% SWA+AT Total Daily Flights: 3,368 Mainline Flights: 3,368 — 100% Outsourced Flights: 0 United States Total Daily Flights: 21,913 Mainline American: 3,055 — 13.94% Mainline Delta: 2,149 — 9.81% Mainline United: 1,735 — 7.92% SWA+AT: 3,368 — 15.37% Mainline Outsourced Regionals: 9,215 — 42% Others: 2,391 — 10.9% http://media.mcclatchydc.com/smedia/...PrcN.La.91.jpg Moderators—please make this thread a sticky. |
But how can SWA be making money if they aren't outsourcing everything?! You HAVE to outsource to cheap labor to be competitive right???
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Wow, that is eye-opening...and incredibly sad.
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I'm blown away by United.
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We should really try to promote awareness on this issue.
Unions should be permanently tracking and sharing this information in a more transparent nature. This will be a permanent subject plaguing our industry and I hope the moderators would make this thread a sticky. Better yet APC.com may benefit from a section of their website that directly tracks outsourced flying. |
Tracking Regional Outsourcing
If these numbers surprise you then you are part of the problem.
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Originally Posted by 8hourrule
(Post 1433102)
If these numbers surprise you then you are part of the problem.
What surprises me is the number of folks who are surprised. |
Originally Posted by 8hourrule
(Post 1433102)
If these numbers surprise you then you are part of the problem.
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Originally Posted by 8hourrule
(Post 1433102)
If these numbers surprise you then you are part of the problem.
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Number of flights is an inaccurate way to measure the impact of regional flying on mainline. Regional airlines are operating far far shorter flights than mainline. Delta's CR2 flying out of ATL averages 300nm per departure.
Block hours or available seat miles would be a far more accurate way of measuring the size of the regional sector vs mainline. If anyone has those number please do post. |
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