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DAL 88 Driver
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1) The DC-9's have spares? I've never seen any DC-9's sitting around as spares. Every time I've had a replacement aircraft to replace an aircraft with a mechanical, they've taken it from another flight. It has never come from an aircraft that was sitting around as a spare.
That's pretty myopic. You've been around long enough to know that the system is incredibly large, and that the "spare" might not come into play until several flights downstream or even several days downstream. It's not like the military where the spare was sitting on your flightline.. it might be in a totally different city..