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and the flight they rerout you to only departs the next day so good luck sleeping on the floor
Twice I've had a flight that was canceled or returned to origin after 90 minutes in the air and then couldn't redepart until 24 hours after we landed.
They provided hotels both times.
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I learned from a recent conversation (in which I was the jerk) that many of the airplane employees are not actually employees of the airline.
Often they are contractors without any benefits, including free flights. When they have to travel for work, they sometimes have to pay for their own hotels. They literally have to pay just to work.
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I choose to believe this.
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I’ll never forget this one. Used to fly a lot for work. Got stuck somewhere cause of “weather”. The low level person and I were talking. I watch a plane takeoff through the window behind him. He’s like you hear that, thunder.
Sometimes it’s about the class of plane and the weather on the specific route you’re taking.
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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??
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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.
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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??
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.
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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??
If you account for the backups having the same failure rate it’s 5.2631579%
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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.
That’s really inefficient, just keep them flying round, constantly, you can fly them to the airport that they will be needed at.
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"The squeaky wheel gets the grease" is an adage that is unfortunately true, and I find it absolutely infuriating.
I would much prefer that we can all be polite and courteous to each other, so when being polite fails but having a screaming tantrum gets results it really makes me annoyed at the unfairness.
i mean that's largely how it works here, if someone's being an ass they get told to fuck off in varyingly polite terms
america dearly needs to unionize, it shouldn't be normal to have to accept verbal abuse while working for a wage that doesn't reliably let you pay rent and buy food
