Originally Posted by
Denny Crane
Don't know if this was the situation but the dispatchers will file a flight for constant mach in the pacific if a flight is running late and there is an opportunity to get it back in time to make the original connections or later ones.
Denny
Just trying to figure things out. As Scambo says we should be flying Cost index and air speed on a transpac and that was what we were getting. But then yesterday we got the constant .85 mach with no changes in cost index. Funny thing is we plugged in ECON(the old way we used to fly) and is gave an arrival time of 3 minutes earlier. Next time will call the dispatcher to see what the reason is. Probably trying to make up time.