New airline, 1 owned aircraft, no operations, e.g. no flight plan, no stations, nothing.
22 employees in Fleet Management!? What are they doing the whole day?!
This amount of employees seems to be ridiculous... anyone can shed a light? Seems to me like something that has to be corrected.
Your first plane of any type requires a large group of people, each subsequent plane of the same type only adds a few more, so the costs are better spread as you get more of any one type.
Your first plane of any type requires a large group of people, each subsequent plane of the same type only adds a few more, so the costs are better spread as you get more of any one type.
I know that. But the question is: Why does the first aircraft need 22 fleet management employees?
Because they have the same qualifications as the pilots (before the training)you’ve hired. (i.e. none) What cant be solved by expertise can be solved by throwing more bodies at the problem.
I don’t think they are ‘type rated’, these are not mechanics. These are office people and there is for sure no need to employ 22 people in the office when you have parked your aircraft somewhere in the desert.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eyf97LAjjcY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-5zEb1oS9A
The weirdest thing is that just for my small Islander which I only use to transfer money I need 22 staff at all companies (if I forget it over weekend closing). The plane does not even fit half of the people who take care of it and it is never going to make a single flight (it has not even been delivered to my hub). Just imagine 22 people taking care of this in the real world:
