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Old Jul 24, 2007, 8:57 pm
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Originally Posted by oliver2002
holy sh...

http://www.flightstats.com/go/Airlin...7-23&x=12&y=13
7/22: 76 flights cancelled
7/23: 62
7/24: 42 as of 7.51 EST

I have a very close DTW-BDL//BOS-DTW booked on NW for 7/30... time to scramble and find alternatives asap or else...
My prediction appears to be coming true (increasing cancellations, just like last month) but this month we can't measure the impact based solely on the # of cancellations. In some occasions, multiple narrow body flights are replaced by 330's & 747's, which (in theory) should leave a small residual of unaccommodated pax from those particular flights. These substitutions have been going on for a while, which should also mitigate the end-of-month catastrophe as compared to June.

So what is the real impact of the pilot shortage turning out to be in July?
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