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Old Aug 13, 2016 | 10:06 am
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Originally Posted by JonNYC
In the scheduling dept vs. OPs war, OPs has prevailed in making the argument that there's no way to run the schedule the way it is now and that the current state of affairs is scheduling's fault, not OP's.

That view has prevailed, for now, and changes are afoot. If those changes don't help, larger changes (at OPs, then) will quickly follow-- the will to fix and the urgency of same has arrived (later than it should have, ironically )
Is it the banking changes (I think that was the term) they made last year or just not enough time between flights?

One thing I notice besides chronic lack of gates - mechanical things getting discovered shortly before takeoff on planes that had been there for a couple of hours or more.
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