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Dec 29, 2021 | 7:28 pm

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Originally Posted by djp98374

I understand what happened…but…it then becomes the issue of things like route/ equipment changes.

you have say SEA-DCA and say SEA-LAX using the same plane and leaving around the same time. You could just switch planes and crew in the routing.

not that simple; duty time limitations (both flight crew and cabin crew) are a significant issue (SEA-LAX is ~3 hrs; SEA-DCA is ~6 hrs)

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Originally Posted by djp98374

There was likely things like looking at the manifest and seeeing how much of this flight were locals vs return homers in deciding which might be easier.

totally unrealistic

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