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Old Jul 13, 2012, 5:46 pm
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Indelaware
 
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Originally Posted by EWR764
At least UA had the decency to strand the pax in Shanghai! Midway, Yellowknife, Cold Bay or Shemya probably would have been far less thoughtful.
The smart thing to do - although UA seems only creative these days with comming up with not smart things to do - would have been to have the crew fly the plane and pax 1/2 way, that is to ANC, assuming that they had the work hours to do so which I suspect that they had and concurrently positioned a relief flight crew at ANC to take over the aircraft and continue to Newark. If there wasn't enough time to fly the crew in on a scheduled commerical flight then have them fly up there on a corporate jet which the PVG-ANC crew could then fly home once they slept. But it has been a long time since I have seen creativity come to operations.
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