How Southwest Airlines melted down

Re:How Southwest Airlines melted down by christkv on Wednesday December 28, 2022 @04:27PM (#34166210)

I thought this stuff also gets more likely to happen as you get towards the end of the month as you are close to the max number of hours the pilots can fly per month (100h in the us per calendar month), making pilot shortage cascades even more likely to happen.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:How Southwest Airlines melted down by londonReed on Wednesday December 28, 2022 @04:56PM (#34166542)

Pilots are only allowed to fly 100h a month? That seems really low, considering a 40 hour work week over 4 weeks in a month is 160h. Although I guess I would rather have my pilot more energized than overworked.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:How Southwest Airlines melted down by atdrummond on Wednesday December 28, 2022 @05:32PM (#34166929)

There’s work before and after the flight that isn’t included in that 100 hours.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:How Southwest Airlines melted down by christkv on Wednesday December 28, 2022 @04:59PM (#34166567)

https://www.flyingmag.com/guides/how-many-hours-do-pilots-wo...

Even less if commercial airplane pilot it seems. 100h is for transport

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:How Southwest Airlines melted down by krisoft on Thursday December 29, 2022 @06:22AM (#34171564)

There is some confusion here. Transport pilots are commercial pilots.

[ Parent | on HN ]