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Scheduling Flights with Two Planes out of Service Question?

  • 08-10-2014 12:51pm
    #1
    MiloDublin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 80 ✭✭


    After the Ryanair collision two aircraft have been taken out of service. How does this impact their schedules, is there an inbuilt margin for these kinds of events or will there be problems until the aircraft are repaired?


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  • #2
    Tenger
    Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators Posts: 10,005 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tenger


    FR have a huge fleet with multiple reserve aircraft scattered around Europe. So while it caused an issue yesterday it shouldn't greatly affect their operations. Their maintenance schedule might be a bit messed up however.


  • #3
    martinsvi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,729 ✭✭✭martinsvi


    I think it depends whether they still operate under busy summer schedule (mind you - they had to hire extra planes this summer) or winter. I think the difference was something between 1600 flights per day in summer and 1300(?) in winter. They have no problem fetching another plane in winter, but when the last incident happened in Stansted (end of June this year), I had to travel in and out of UK and I noticed widespread delays across Ryanair flights for number of days in a row. Might have been a coincidence, there are very few people who can tell for sure.


  • #4
    Stovepipe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,984 ✭✭✭Stovepipe


    They shift aircraft around the whole time, to sustain the 4-per-base set-up. having more than four at Dublin allows them to cope with the loss of available aircraft. Most airlines will have at least one aircraft on standby for such an event or will juggle the schedule to allow for sudden loss of capacity.


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