Originally Posted by
canadiancow
I always wonder if it might be easier/faster/cheaper to just say "screw it", rebook literally everyone (including the crew), and just forget about the flights.
I don't know how much it would cost them to reroute everyone, but ferrying an empty plane over with a crew that's going to deadhead back (possibly displacing some paid J pax) seems wasteful, especially since everyone is within their right to ask for a rebooking anyway.
There are very few scenarios where even I, a lover of LQM, would sit around waiting for a rescue flight like that.
Deadheading a plane across the ocean is an automatic ~24 hour delay.
In today's scenario, each city would need to have 300 empty seats on other airlines going to North America.
That's potentially solvable if you're going to the USA. If you can't connect through the USA, then this is the better option.
It looked like KIX took a several hour delay before being cancelled. That reduces opportunities on other airlines as the night goes on.
The crew operating the empty rescue flights would operate the fixed planes back home. That's unless the it takes more than a few days to fix the plane.
Not sure what the union rules say about how many days a pairing can be.
MNL, the crew would have been there 2 nights already. Now 3 with the delay.