hmmm.... gotta have a laugh at this 1. 35 pilots in about 900 is about 3%. When EVERY pilot in the airline is doing 900 logbook hrs, then they have a crew shortage. 319 co pilots are largely doing 500 hrs a yr. Crew in CT and DN are doing 30hrs a month. I will concede some of this is bar talk, but i know of enough 1st hand stories to guess its true.
Only prob here is that the crew on some fleets have to take the strain for bad planning by management.
Its back to 1 of my other posts, the sooner the state starts to using my tax ZAR for building houses and fighting crime, the better. Leave running airlines to pvt capital.