Mid-atlantic F/a Classes Are Being Scheduled

[BoeingBoy]

Thanks, Light.

I may have been a little unclear - I was talking about a F/A crew (presumably the FAA staffing of 2) instead of the airplane crew (2 pilots + 2 F/A's) when I was talking about using mainline pilot staffing to guess at MDA F/A staffing.

Staying ahead of the curve when aircraft are being delivered is understandable, though one result is overstaffing at any particular time with the resultant sitting around by reserves.

It just did (and still does) sound very inefficient to stay at a F/A staffing ratio of 20 per airplane as the number of aircraft increases. That's 10 pairs of F/A's (or F/A crews) per plane for planes that fly less per day (as of the September data available from BTS) than any of the mainline planes.

The two classes reported to be upcoming sound more in line - 24 F/A's for 3 planes equals 8 F/A's per plane, or 4 F/A crews.

At the end of the day, we may be really talking about the difference between the actual staffing to plane ratio (the 20:1) resulting from staying ahead of the plane deliveries and the minimum ratio (more like 8 or 10:1) that it takes to fly the planes on hand.

Jim

 

[MAABoss]

LightYears,

Have not heard about the express coming off..but, we do have the 3 new planes so maybe someone who has seen them can tell us if the express is off the side. I did speak to a gate agent in philly who is mainline but working MAA and they said that they are all ( mainline agents at express terminal) are going back to B/C gates in 2 weeks. They did not know that the MAA flights may be going over there too in 2 weeks. But, they did say that they thought something was going on for them to be going back there. I have been told by MANY pilots that come Feb. there will be a big change. They were not sure what it was going to be..but, the company obviously has something instore.

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LightYears,
I haven't heard about the "express" coming of the side either. Its is true that MAA will be operating out of b/c in PHL. For how long? Who knows. It may not be a permanent thing. It's not being released as to "why".

 

[RowUnderDCA]

reject F gates in B-court, get on a waiting list for more gates in A, try to move AMR to D, up the average plane size in PHL and fly Philadelphians to where they want to go, cancel some affliate flying agreements, roll the hub.

 

[GroundedBoricua]

Boeing but remember that you already have alot of F/A sitting around doing nothing, So I would dare to say it would go down but to a 15:1 ratio. And by the way does anyone know if the 3 planes in question are on property already or they are still sitting in brazil??

 

[ITRADE]

Holy @rap. Hadn't seen this one:

New non-stop E170 service out of DCA starting in February.

I can definately tell you I'll be taking the ATL and CLE flights. Wow. Nice one US.

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