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Old Jun 23, 2012 | 8:17 pm
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Originally Posted by mridley2
Unless in some random chance they could reconfigure the planes to make it all work. Which is not that unreasonable. An industrial engineer with a free afternoon could easily sort this out. But I bet you're flight will go full steam ahead!
You mean reschedule, not reconfigure. Changing the arrangement of seats on an aircraft isn't going to help. Also, I think you're being overly optimistic about IE. It's not a task for an afternoon for a typical IE (although there would be some specialists with graduate-level degrees or lots of experience who might do well). Perhaps more importantly, the key is to do this in real time in a dynamic environment. Solving the problem in several hours doesn't do much good.
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