Originally Posted by
richarddd
The captain said there was only one ground crew at JFK. Can that be true?
Like many official airline websites, the JFK website only shows limited data. But, for last night, there are the scheduled Delta arrivals/departures between 11:30pm and 1:00am:
Arrivals:
Flight 426 (ATL): 11:56pm
Flight 1726 (SAE): 11:59pm
Flight 9100 (MEX): 12:25am
Flight 789 (SLC): 12:28am
Flight 1089 (SFO): 12:49am
Source:
https://www.airport-jfk.com/arrivals...elta-air-lines
Departures:
Flight 156 (ACC): 11:45pm
Flight 234 (TLV): 11:45pm
Source:
https://www.airport-jfk.com/departur...elta-air-lines
Personally, I have no knowledge about ground clues, so I won't speculate. Perhaps someone else more knowledgeable can opine about whether a single ground crew can reasonably manage all of those planes.