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> Every airline at every airport should have a certain number of crews and airplanes capable of providing service in place of a delayed flight. Good luck findi
by RC_ITR 4y ago
> Every airline at every airport should have a certain number of crews and airplanes capable of providing service in place of a delayed flight.
Good luck finding pilots to be “on-call” to fly anywhere in the world (and most commonly to small US cities) on a moments notice, with a jump seat return flight as their way home (after a night in a small city hotel).
- apelapan 4y agoYou'll find that almost all airlines keep staff on call in various places and with various reporting times, because already at very small scale, you'll have some crew not making it to work for whatever reason all the time. Maintaining right sized and right placed operational buffers is an entire sub-category of within airline scheduling software/consultancy. Those buffers will never cover a major disaster of course. They should let you hit your on-time and cancellation targets at smallest possible cost, though.