Aircraft Scheduling – What Goes Into It?
Nov 3, 2022, 11:38 pm
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Aircraft Scheduling – What Goes Into It?
Hi all,
This question has been bugging me for a while, and I'd love some insight into it.
When it comes to SQ285/SQ286, I've seen some of the 777-300ERs operate two sets of these flights, with a break occasionally in between with SYD-SIN, for example.
I've noticed that an aircraft may not always fly straight out of SIN again, it might be one day (at most, two) before it does – maintenance is the most obvious answer, but is that always really the case?
Just what is it that goes into scheduling a particular aircraft for a route?
They obviously don't just pull a random 777 down to fly any given route, though, it would be somewhat amusing if that was the case.
Finally, I notice SQ has the last two characters of the aircraft registration on the nose gear doors, but for the 737s, they have the entire latter half instead.
Is that an internal SQ convention, or some other rule?
Thanks, as always.
This question has been bugging me for a while, and I'd love some insight into it.
When it comes to SQ285/SQ286, I've seen some of the 777-300ERs operate two sets of these flights, with a break occasionally in between with SYD-SIN, for example.
I've noticed that an aircraft may not always fly straight out of SIN again, it might be one day (at most, two) before it does – maintenance is the most obvious answer, but is that always really the case?
Just what is it that goes into scheduling a particular aircraft for a route?
They obviously don't just pull a random 777 down to fly any given route, though, it would be somewhat amusing if that was the case.
Finally, I notice SQ has the last two characters of the aircraft registration on the nose gear doors, but for the 737s, they have the entire latter half instead.
Is that an internal SQ convention, or some other rule?
Thanks, as always.
