Re: Your thoughts on Northwest Airlines?????????

In message <1185820470.183988.140160@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
samsmith2009@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

On Jul 30, 9:14 am, jo...@xxxxxxxx (John L) wrote:
NWA has laid off too many pilots. What is happening is that towards
the end of the month, the pilots are reaching their limit for
flying and not able to fly the last couple of days. NWA in turn has
been canceling flights at the end of the month because they don't
have crews available.

If that's all it was, then this shouldn't be a new problem, but
should have been occurring since NWA first got rid of the pilots.

I'm pretty sure they haven't increased the number of flights,
and I don't think they've cut even more crew recently.

I gather that with all the delays this summer, pilots are running up
more hours than they used to.

The problem of NWA running out of crews at the end of the month is a
real one. I wouldn't book on them on the last few days of the month,
either.

This is just a thought, but why don't they cancel a flight here and
there throughout the month, rather than a bunch at the end of month.

Gut feeling, they probably have enough pilots to cover the flights if
everything goes well -- They won't know exactly how many sick days,
delayed flights, emergency stops or other incidents will come up to know
how many flights to cancel.

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Americans couldn't be any more self-absorbed if they were made from equal
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