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Old May 15, 2013, 6:27 pm
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Originally Posted by indufan
Isn't this the airline catch-22? You gotta maximize the use of a fleet and deal with it if it goes bad. If I am running an airline, I am not sitting 3 or 4 planes around waiting for IROPS. The bad assumption you are making is that the same model of plane must be used to cover for the IROPS. I just flew a 76W DTW-SFO and it was going back to ATL and I wondered how that plane somehow ended up in the places it did.
Exactly so.
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