"nobody" wrote in message
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> me wrote:
>> Two ways it can save money. 1) is allowing faster turn around times.
>> 2) is requiring fewer people to service more aircraft per hour. The
>> article I saw though was definitely about #1.
>
>
> It is one thing for legacy airlines to tell Wall street casino analysts
> that
> they are working to reduce turn around times, but another thing for the
> legacy
> airlines to drop their whole schedule mentality at hubs adn REALLY reduce
> turn
> around times.
>
> It isn't the "hub" concept that is flawed, it is the concept as
> implemented in
> the USA to make shecdules to allow the most connections with the least
> amount
> of waiting, and that requires planes stay at the hub longer than
> necessary, as
> well as requiring more gates, more staff and of course more planes because
> you
> have a whole bunch of planes iddle at gates for a long period instead of
> being
> in the sky.
>
> If AA were truly serious, it would have made an announcemnt that pillows
> would
> only be loaded on overnight flighst as well as daylight flighst of more
> than X hours.
>
> They need system-wide restructuring of schedule, not just a change on a
> few
> old planes.
I agree with you. But their MD80's aren't "few" and many aren't "old."
They've got over 150 of them, and the later ones are 5 years old or so
(acquired with the TWA acquisition). The oldest MD80's have been phased out
or are in the desert in storage.
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