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Old Jul 7, 2024 | 12:12 pm
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Originally Posted by PBIGuy
I’m surprised that it took all day for AA to recover from a plane out of service in the morning. Trust me I’ve been doing this for 20+ years and know they don’t keep spare planes of every type around at every airport, but how tight are their operations that it takes a day to recover one flight?
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Originally Posted by dw
It’s definitely a balancing act. ...
this, x10000 or more

it’s not just the jet (and even that presumes none of the upline aircraft in the candidate rotation experience a mechanical) … they have to deal with flight crew and cabin crew availability, duty day limits (risk of timing out), etc

Originally Posted by LegRoomPlz
They just bumped the flight to 7:30PM. Incoming plane now from STL and arriving at 7:03PM.
the only segment of the AA universe where they *might* be able to turn a 319 in 27 minutes would be at an outstation at 11pm where there were only a dozen or so pax on both the inbound and outbound flights *AND* they were tankering fuel
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