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cb900f_bodhi@lemmynsfw.com 1 week ago
Maybe someone who works for an airline can explain this to me. Most other industries that rely on a piece of equipment to function, have backups on standby. The number of backups is a function of the failure rate of that specific piece of equipment. So let’s say you are a trucking company, and you know from experience that one out of twenty trucks on average will go down in a given week for some repair issue but it’s in your company’s best interest to keep the freight moving on time. So you have 5% of your fleet on standby across your shipping route to keep your business functioning. It doesn’t seem like airlines do this, or they do it very poorly and don’t seem to have any incentive to improve. What gives??
Because planes that aren’t moving aren’t generating money. And airlines inherently are NOT catering to the Uber rich. The Uber rich have their OWN planes and jets.
A trucking company by comparison has much more to lose if something doesn’t ship on time, especially if contracted with high value or time sensitive goods.
If you account for the backups having the same failure rate it’s 5.2631579%
Macaroni_ninja@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Airlines store their airplanes on airports most of the time when not in the air. Airports charge them a huge amount of money for this. Even if if there is a few minutes delay, they get big fines for occupying a gate.
Imagine having extra planes on standby.
SouthEndSunset@lemm.ee 1 week ago
That’s really inefficient, just keep them flying round, constantly, you can fly them to the airport that they will be needed at.