Originally Posted by
sweptback
What's the difference between AMIS and SCEPTRE from a maintenance point of view?
Why not migrate sCO to AMIS, and then once everybody is on an ELB, migrate to SCEPTRE if that was to be the end-state?
The answer lies in the age old problems of Silos within the airline (and most large companies) and the lack of leadership on the top of those silos.
It would have been extra work for the Maintenance division to migrate the sub CO 777s over to AMIS and then start working on getting an ELB for SCEPTRE. That work would have cost Maintenance time and money as a division so they didn't want to do it. Unfortunately the buffoonery of our leadership lets such "good for the division - bad for the airline" decisions go all the time! So all of the increased crew cost that Flt Ops dealt with, all of the lost revenue due to extra DH segments, and all of the QOL destruction that the pilots endured dramatically exceeded the cost that would have been borne by Maintenance, but that doesn't matter. Maintenance still came in on budget!!