I have calculated the average number of passengers per aircraft and hours per pilot for 2014 from CAA data. (Tables 1_11_2 & 1_14). There are probably no real surprises with long haul & charter carriers requiring more passengers per aircraft. I have taken total hours flown, average fleet size and average number of pilots & other cockpit staff (which will include a number who are not line pilots). The usual health warnings about use of statistics apply.
Average pilots per aircraft
BA Cityflyer 9.2
British Airways 13.6
Easyjet 10.8
Flybe 8.2
Jet2 9.6
Monarch 12.9
Thomas Cook 18.5
Thomson 14.4
Virgin Atlantic 21.8
Other 3.6
Total 10.6
Total hours flown / average no. of pilots (a/c hours per pilot)
BA Cityflyer 276
British Airways 287
Easyjet 340
Flybe 289
Jet2 269
Monarch 257
Thomas Cook 227
Thomson 274
Virgin Atlantic 226
Other 237
Total 283
Apologies - I can never manage to cut & paste a table into Pprune & keep the formatting - please let me know if there is a way. I can let anyone have my workings if they wish.
Last edited by Peter47; 24th Jul 2015 at 11:31.