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Old May 24, 2013 | 12:57 am
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Originally Posted by ashishp

Does anyone know about what the utilization of their planes and crew really is? We see their planes doing longer turnarounds than competition so clearly that goes out of the window! As for crew: what is the flight crew to airplane ratio currently? That would give an indication. And so on.
Cant comment on all the stat's as I dont have them. But for the above point of padding between flights and airtime.. there is another factor to keep in mind. to my knowledge, 6E does not follow a hub-spoke model. They fly point to point. As such some of their routings of the previous sector might be long routings.. MX and re-fueling takes longer if previous sector has been long.

Also, all the aircraft's have a fixed number of cabin de-press and re-press cycle's they can go through before heading for their C check's.. it could be purely a case of clever scheduling to ensure efficient use of service time..
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