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Old Dec 23, 2019 | 11:31 pm
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rumboj
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Originally Posted by peetahvw
This past Sunday (Dec 22, 2019) - The Dallas Cowboy's chartered an AA 772. Looks like it ended up having some maintence issues, stranding the team for a few hours (unclear if it was a crew timeout issue or a mechanical issue)
https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/...nded-in-philly

But got me thinking, starting in Jan, PHL is scheduled to get a 788 for a daily DFW, ORD and MAN. Curious to see if the PHL maintenance crew is ready to service these Boeing widebodies - as well as expanding the crewbase to staff the multiple 788 flights. I know Legacy US has some 767s based in PHL, and those crews are cross-rated onto the 757s. But 787 is a completely new rating type.
I’m confused. Are you really somehow assuming that in any lifetime an airline will regularly schedule an aircraft to fly to a city where its maintenance personnel have not been trained on the aircraft? The expectation is that they will just wing in?

Hmmmmmm...what could possibly go wrong there?
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