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This is one of those really important business decisions that feels almost trivial but with profound positive results. It immediately reminded me of Southwest A
by michaelbuckbee 10y ago
This is one of those really important business decisions that feels almost trivial but with profound positive results. It immediately reminded me of Southwest Air and how they credit some of their early success to _only_ flying 737s. Letting them standardize their maintenance and getting very good at keeping that one model of airplane flying.
- giarc 10y agoThis is currently happening with Canadian airline WestJet. For many years they only flew a single aircraft which made maintenance much easier (staff trained on a single aircraft, parts are easier to keep in stock). They since purchased a few larger aircraft to fly to London and Dublin and have been plagued with maintenance issues. Passengers are getting stuck in London while WestJet scrambles to fly in a mechanic and parts to fix the planes.
- jdietrich 10y agoThe computer industry is perhaps the most extreme example of this. From a dizzying array of different systems in the infancy of computing, the overwhelming majority of the market has consolidated to two instruction set architectures and a handful of operating systems. Magic things happen when your economies of scale are big enough.