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The interview I saw with one the exec seemed to indicate that even under normal conditions when a flight is cancelled each crew member needed to call into a cal

The interview I saw with one the exec seemed to indicate that even under normal conditions when a flight is cancelled each crew member needed to call into a call center to be reassigned.

Supermancho 4y ago
All crew are also under a regulation that limits their time available for flight, similar to a trucker but with larger consequences. eg If you are on shift for a certain number of hours, waiting for a plane in a hotel or in the terminal, it_does_not_matter. You have to have a mandatory sleep block where you are now unavailable. Once thousands of staff started timing out, even after the weather clears, it_did_not_matter. They were now unavailable and their replacements hadn't come in due to the weather, leaving some locales understaffed and all schedules backed up (which continued to compound as weather shifted).
- redtriumph 4y ago
  Similar to humans, is there a wait time [cooling time] for aircrafts also? I suspect before and after each takeoff and landing, there are bunch of tests run to verify proper function of aircraft parts and subsystems.
  - Supermancho 4y ago
    Transport aircraft can run continuously for multiple flights. They don't turn off the engines under certain conditions (short hops, type of plane, size of loads, etc). There are regulatory inspections that require it to hangar, but I'm not familiar enough to cite any.
  - TexasDawg 4y ago
    Aircraft have to be scheduled for various maintenance checks such as "A", "B", "C", and "D" (which are the heaviest maintenance checks and take them out of service for many days/weeks). They're of course checked by the Ramp Crew and also receive a pre-flight walk around by the pilots before take-off. The only wait time is if there is a necessary repair to deal with a warning/indicator light and related repair time, hopefully does not take the aircraft out of service. Better out of service than break down in-air.

The interview I saw with one the exec seemed to indicate that even under normal conditions when a flight is cancelled each crew member needed to call into a call center to be reassigned.

Supermancho 4y ago

All crew are also under a regulation that limits their time available for flight, similar to a trucker but with larger consequences. eg If you are on shift for a certain number of hours, waiting for a plane in a hotel or in the terminal, it_does_not_matter. You have to have a mandatory sleep block where you are now unavailable. Once thousands of staff started timing out, even after the weather clears, it_did_not_matter. They were now unavailable and their replacements hadn't come in due to the weather, leaving some locales understaffed and all schedules backed up (which continued to compound as weather shifted).

redtriumph 4y ago
Similar to humans, is there a wait time [cooling time] for aircrafts also? I suspect before and after each takeoff and landing, there are bunch of tests run to verify proper function of aircraft parts and subsystems.
- Supermancho 4y ago
  Transport aircraft can run continuously for multiple flights. They don't turn off the engines under certain conditions (short hops, type of plane, size of loads, etc). There are regulatory inspections that require it to hangar, but I'm not familiar enough to cite any.
- TexasDawg 4y ago
  Aircraft have to be scheduled for various maintenance checks such as "A", "B", "C", and "D" (which are the heaviest maintenance checks and take them out of service for many days/weeks). They're of course checked by the Ramp Crew and also receive a pre-flight walk around by the pilots before take-off. The only wait time is if there is a necessary repair to deal with a warning/indicator light and related repair time, hopefully does not take the aircraft out of service. Better out of service than break down in-air.