How are those PHX-PHL-PHX deadheads going? To bad there's not markets out west instead of deadheading back and forth across the country to do East flying.
I am simply amazed sometimes that pilots, people who do relatively simple math in their head all day long, cannot grasp how another simple math concept works.
I will show my work.
The east flies say 2000 block hours a day, and they fly 6% of that on "what could be considered West routes"
2000 X .06=120 block hours/day on West routes.
The West flies 1000 block hours a day, and they fly 24% of that on "what could be considered east routes".
1000 X .24=240 block hours/day on east routes.
difference of 120 hours. When you consider that a route like PHX-PHL, or PHX-DCA is flown by the
West, but is then tallied as "what could be considered and east route". It would boil down to east doing just as much West flying as vice versa.
So what we have here is a bunch of east posters who cannot grasp the fact that after the company shifted block hours from the West to the east in Aug 2008, then lost a grievence over it, then had to move flying back to the West that was theirs originally, and marketing wanted to move things around a little to get some more synergy, that it is all basically a wash.
Why do you geniuses think the company came up with this statistic in the first place? It was because they needed it for the min block hour grievence they lost. They were trying to show that they did not move block hours from West to east, but in reality they did, and they lost the grievence over doing so.
Bottom line, the West is not doing significantly more east flying than the east is doing West flying.
As an aside, I personally have not had to do any DH flights as part of my pairing to get into position. However, I have carried many numerous east crew in the back from PHX (an obvious West domicile, hence West route the east crew flew inbound) into SAN, SFO,LAX, etc. etc. any of this ringing a bell?