{"id":21440,"date":"2014-04-07T10:00:52","date_gmt":"2014-04-07T08:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/?p=21440"},"modified":"2014-04-07T10:00:52","modified_gmt":"2014-04-07T08:00:52","slug":"cyprus-airways-why-so-many-pilots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2014\/04\/07\/cyprus-airways-why-so-many-pilots\/","title":{"rendered":"Cyprus Airways : Why so many pilots?"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p>Cyprus Mail reader <a href=\"http:\/\/cyprus-mail.com\/2014\/04\/06\/why-so-many-pilots\/\">asks an interesting question<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Having just read your article on the Cyprus Airways pilots\u2019 legal action against the board, I cannot believe their audacity.<\/p>\n<p>They talk about how the board should remove excess staff. There are <strong>71 pilots for a fleet of six aircraft<\/strong>. That is an amazing amount of pilots for such a\u00a0small fleet. That is the <strong>equivalent of 10 crews per aircraft<\/strong>, when <strong>normally an airline would have four, possibly five<\/strong> crews per aircraft, especially with such a small route\u00a0structure. Why so many pilots?<\/p>\n<p>No wonder the airline cannot make a profit.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I wonder how many people actually know the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>how many aircraft \u00a0Cyprus Airways has in its fleet?<\/li>\n<li>how many pilots are employed by the Cyprus Airways?<\/li>\n<li>how many pilots are usually in one crew?<\/li>\n<li>how many crews on average an airline has per aircraft?<\/li>\n<li>how does the number of crews per aircraft varies based on the route structure?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<!-- google_ad_section_end -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p>Cyprus Mail reader asks an interesting question: Having just read your article on the Cyprus Airways pilots\u2019 legal action against the board, I cannot believe their audacity. They talk about how the board should remove excess staff. There are 71 pilots for a fleet of six aircraft. That is an amazing amount of pilots for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2014\/04\/07\/cyprus-airways-why-so-many-pilots\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Cyprus Airways : Why so many pilots?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<!-- google_ad_section_end -->\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,22],"tags":[2362,1968,3100],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-21440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-cyprus","tag-airlines","tag-business","tag-cyprus-airways"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":16729,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2012\/09\/20\/what-are-they-thinking\/","url_meta":{"origin":21440,"position":0},"title":"What are they thinking?","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"September 20, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Cyprus Mail reports that Cyprus Airways expands its operations in Greece: \"After the positive response from the Athens-Thessalonica-Athens route, the airline decided to start new regular flights to the country\u2019s most important airports,\" CY announced yesterday. 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