RobertS975

"DL95/03JUL made a planned stop in BGR due to crew legality issues. The aircraft was scheduled to make a stop in BOS for a replacement crew, but strong enroute winds lengthened the flight and a stop in BGR became necessary. The replacement crew was flown up on DL9905, a 733 Shuttle doing nothing, from BOS. The BGR stop was decided about 11:00am, about 90 minutes after the previous scheduled BOSBGR flight and the next one wasn't until later that afternoon. The ferry flight minimized the delay as DL95 only spent just over an hour on the ground.
The reason for the crew legality issues was because of IROPs at JFK on Friday 01JUL. The BCN crew on that day originated in ATL where typically International flight crews originate in the gateway city. The added flight leg was the contributing factor to the crews flight time being cut as JFKBCNJFK only operates with a 2 man flight crew.

The passengers did leave BCN with the knowledge they were making a stop in BOS to get a new flight crew."


Actually, I think DL TOC (Technical Operations Center) deserves applause for orchestrating this entire operation, and the end result is that the plane landed JFK only 90 minutes late, and in plenty of time to make an onward flight out of JFK close to ontime.