Originally Posted by
UhhhKhakis
Thanks for the responses. The rolling delay on the deadhead was actually on mainline. But what you all said makes sense, need the airplane there the next morning. The completion factor thing for the regional carriers makes sense too. Just seems a little silly to send an empty airplane from a hub to an outstation, back to the hub again empty just for the completion.
I think it is a fair question, and don’t always assume that operations doesn’t make bad judgments and decisions too. Mainline ops you know Deltas, Uniteds…they are pretty good….so they probably are on top of it……but if you ever worked at JetBlue you’d know that’s definitely not always the case.