Originally Posted by
Lloydbraun1976
Really, might I respectfully suggest "facts first" before you question assumptions.
Great, let's do just that.
Originally Posted by
Lloydbraun1976
FR has 50% fewer internal employees yet has larger fleet and on-board crews, which must reflect far greater groundside outsourcing they must obviously do to deliver EU leading OTP.
And EU airspace far more congested than the empty skies over Canada, so what other excuse might AC come up with for such poor peformance other than shareholders don't know to demand better?
- Every Ryanair pilot is type-rated on the 737; if one gets sick / exceeds duty hours, it's MUCH easier for Ryanair to get a replacement into the cockpit quickly. (presumably not all are finished training on the MAX yet, but that's a lot different than transferring from a CR9 to a Dreamliner).
- This also means Ryanair can staff considerably more flights (including reserves) per 1,000 pilots than AC can.
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Ryanair's *longest* routes are generally in the range of 2,400-2,500 miles, for comparison YUL-YVR is 2,295. AC's longest route is 7,967 miles; any delay on an outbound long-haul all but guarantees the return flight will be late by at least a comparable amount, and a mechanical issue means a cancelled SYD-YVR must by definition delay passengers by up to a full day.
- Replacement parts, and the mechanics to install them, are much more readily available even at Ryanair's most distant outstation.
- Ryanair flies to a wide variety of secondary airfields for which they are a leading or the only major airline present; congestion producing knock-on rolling delays is rarely a factor on TFS-WMI, while the vast majority of Air Canada flights either depart or arrive at one of a handful of major hubs, and it's common for a snow squall to delay or cancel dozens of flights in the space of half an hour.
Now - all of this addresses issues in drawing one-to-one comparisons between Ryanair and AC. Meanwhile, Delta, AA and KLM are all managing to run long-hauls through a handful of hubs with far better OTP. My point is not that AC's doing it right, only that it's not terribly useful to say they should be more like Ryanair.