Originally Posted by
corporate-wage-slave
Thanks very much for this and the other catch-up list today, I appreciate it's a lot of looking up work.
The above is interesting in that it seems to me that in round numbers BA can normally cope with about 4 shorthaul aircraft out of service and maybe 2 longhauls, at a pinch. So 7 + 3 is when the wheels come off the schedule.
Plus they seem about 8 pilots short too.
I’d agree with those numbers, during the winter that number would just be about manageable.
As for the pilot number, we are below ‘establishment’ and have been for a while. It turns out focusing on IATA traffic forecasts is about as helpful as trusting Neil Furguson’s calculator. That avoidable blunder aside there are a number of pilots in the training pipeline post recruitment campaign at present, too many to handle internally and so some training has been outsourced to other providers. This means by the time winter arrives we should be at a good level for summer ‘24.
On the engineering manpower side the struggle will no doubt continue from what I hear, we shall see.
Also, most welcome.