Re: [Marxism] Labor aristocracy?

[Jon Flanders <jonflanders@xxxxxxxxx>]

I don't know, but Google produced this: Jon Flanders

Regional Airlines 

http://thesop.org/index.php?article=3994


Regional carrier FTEs were up 2.8 percent in November compared to
November 2005, the largest increase in FTEs from the previous year since
September 2005. (Table 13).  

SkyWest and Mesa reported the largest increases in the group.  SkyWest
employed 8.0 percent more FTEs in November 2006 than November 2005 while
Mesa employed 10.8 percent more (Table 15). 

Regional carrier FTEs rose from 42,000 in November 2003 to 58,000 in
November 2006, an increase of 37 percent (Table 14).    

The nine regional carriers reporting employment data in both 2002 and
2006 employed 10 percent more FTEs in November 2006 than in November
2002.  Of that group, Air Wisconsin, Mesaba Airlines and Executive were
the only carriers to report fewer FTEs in November 2006 than November
2002 (Table 15).  

Regional carriers provide service from small cities, using primarily
regional jets to support the network carriersâ hub and spoke systems.

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For comparison purposes in 2006 the big seven "network" carriers
employed around 250,000

I suspect that the same dynamic is at work that drives the railroads to
spin off as much "feeder" line as they can to small non-union operators.

JF             




On Sun, 2009-05-17 at 11:02 -0400, Jim Farmelant wrote:
> 
> Has anybody done an analysis of the political economy
> of the airline industry in terms of tracking how the career
> prospects of pilots have changed over time?  
> What percentage of pilots who
> toil for low wages at one of the small regional
> airlines are able to move on to jobs with the major
> carriers, which still offer high salaries and benefits?
> 
> I would imagine that deregulation has had a major
> impact on the career paths of professional pilots
> since its inception over thirty years ago, but
> has anybody studied this in detail?
> 
> Jim F.
> 



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