Why such a pullback?
08-14-2022, 03:30 PM
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Why such a pullback?
AA is canceling 31,000 flights in Nov
JetBlue ended service on 37 routes
Frontier pulled 4000 flights from the fall schedule
Delta cut 4000 flights
United is cutting 50 flights a day out of EWR
What the heck? Every airline is claiming schedule integrity. But things are going fairly smoothly. I geek like something more is at play. Closed door meetings with the DOT prompt airlines to fear delays and or meltdowns.
Demand is sky high right now, across the industry cuts have me a little puzzled
JetBlue ended service on 37 routes
Frontier pulled 4000 flights from the fall schedule
Delta cut 4000 flights
United is cutting 50 flights a day out of EWR
What the heck? Every airline is claiming schedule integrity. But things are going fairly smoothly. I geek like something more is at play. Closed door meetings with the DOT prompt airlines to fear delays and or meltdowns.
Demand is sky high right now, across the industry cuts have me a little puzzled
08-14-2022, 03:34 PM
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Because they know they can't staff any more right now. If they try, then the house of cards comes down and "relatively smoothly" becomes catastrophic meltdown within a day or two.
Once you have planes out of position with no crew it spirals very quickly.
Once you have planes out of position with no crew it spirals very quickly.
08-14-2022, 03:45 PM
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Originally Posted by Aero1900
AA is canceling 31,000 flights in Nov
JetBlue ended service on 37 routes
Frontier pulled 4000 flights from the fall schedule
Delta cut 4000 flights
United is cutting 50 flights a day out of EWR
What the heck? Every airline is claiming schedule integrity. But things are going fairly smoothly. I geek like something more is at play. Closed door meetings with the DOT prompt airlines to fear delays and or meltdowns.
Demand is sky high right now, across the industry cuts have me a little puzzled
JetBlue ended service on 37 routes
Frontier pulled 4000 flights from the fall schedule
Delta cut 4000 flights
United is cutting 50 flights a day out of EWR
What the heck? Every airline is claiming schedule integrity. But things are going fairly smoothly. I geek like something more is at play. Closed door meetings with the DOT prompt airlines to fear delays and or meltdowns.
Demand is sky high right now, across the industry cuts have me a little puzzled
I went like 3 weeks in July without a single on time due to late inbounds, ATC, MX etc.
EWR is a disaster and will continue to be a disaster unless they give it some breathing room.
They’re all in the hot seat right now. Lots of media attention. Get the schedule and operation back on track and make up for the lost flights with higher ticket prices if needed.
Last edited by 01110011; 08-14-2022 at 03:57 PM.
08-14-2022, 04:18 PM
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Back in the day… the FAA would not allow a carrier to add an aircraft to be added to their certificate unless said aircraft could be adequately manned both front and back. The POI would monitor man powered manning versus aircraft for scheduling purposes…. Looks like times have changed.
