intrepidcv11

So Mr Kirby how does Delta make the 717 work? How will they make the C Series work? I'm not ecstatic about a new SNB, but our current crud regional feed is still keeping good paying passengers away.

intrepidcv11

How did that work out after Contract 2000 again?

Andy

777s being used domestically will reduce daily utilization rates.

The whale flights will just be flown by different equipment so it shouldn't effect widebody utilization rates.

Dave Fitzgerald

Historically, and our management has so much respect for past practice and mechanical limits, when the average utilization approaches 11 hrs/day, the reliability suffers an order of magnitude. Management usually has to relearn this lesson about every 10 years.

The airplanes just don't sit enough for good MX times. New or old doesn't much matter. They still have to have B checks and time to fix deferred items. The Shuttle fleet was the exception. The average was 12.5/day. But, every out station was a MX station and the plane were worked on every night. It worked because that was intentional. The fleets today fly round the clock. You can't turn an uber guppy in the same time, which increases turn times, which reduces fleets flying times. You just can't load people in a tube that long in a short time. Even then, you can't load that many bags in a 20 min turn. So, lots of reasons moving to a higher utilization is problematic.

So, increasing the utilization is not the magic panacea some people think it is. Want to **** off more of our valued customers? Start running hours late and cancelling more flights.

ugleeual

I wonder what SWA's utilization rates are...

PA Slammer

Has anyone else had issues playing the Scott Kirby Unplugged videos? What am I doing wrong or not doing?

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cal73

2015
10:36 as per the following website

Airline Data Project

Specifically
http://web.mit.edu/airlinedata/www/2...dy%20Fleet.htm

Terrain Inop

The peak at Spirit was 14 hrs/ day. When it worked it was impressive, but the system had no capacity to cope with disruptions.

CLazarus

Couldn't get them to work on my Ipad. Work fine on my Windows desktop.

When asked about the fleet reviews, SK said he couldn't comment on specifics since we were in talks with BA and AB about "widebodies". But he did say the biggest open question was what to do about the 767 fleet.

cadetdrivr

Yup.

The mighty UAL IT department is completely up to speed with circa 1998 Flash technology for video streaming. Meanwhile all pilots and FAs have been issued company iOS devices that don't use Flash.