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Tagged with airline-operations flight-planning
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Why does one airliner fly along the coast and the other doesn't?
Found this odd to see the same airliner, same origin, same destination, and same time, yet different paths. More interesting is seeing that one aircraft is flying along the coast while the other is ...
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What are Market Share, Market Size & yield in aviation network planning? [closed]
I came across the terms Market share, size & yield in aviation network planning. I don't really know what that means, anyone can provide me with a simplified explanation or maybe a reference where ...
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Since 9/11, for international flights, have any airlines made regular technical stops in the US?
Since 9/11, has any airline had scheduled international passenger flights with a technical stop at any US airport?
(A technical stop means all passengers and crew stay on the plane without going ...
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What sort of briefing and planning information would an airline pilot in the 1960-70s have used?
Slightly related: Do airliners get substantially different weather briefings from the rest of us?
Highly related: How was the navigation managed on jetliners before having programmable routes?
Highly ...
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Why did this FedEx flight (FDX1311) take such an indirect route multiple times?
I was looking at flights from DEN -> MEM, and saw this extra-long route that FDX1311 took last night (9 Aug 2021)
Thinking they were probably just avoiding storms, I scrolled down and saw there ...
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How is flight planning performed with short turnaround times?
For low cost carrier short-haul flight such as Dortmund-London I have experienced multiple times that turnaround times are around 20-25 minutes. In such a short time what is included in the flight ...
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If an airliner turns back midway, how is the route planned?
There's several incidents of "flights to nowhere", e.g. https://onemileatatime.com/klm-787-nine-hour-flight-to-nowhere/
After a pilot decides to turn back, how is this handled from a routing/...
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How to get an accurate time of arrival to the en-route alternate airport during flight planning?
I was thinking about accurate criteria of selecting en-route alternate (ERA) weather from ground (planning stage) especially for ERA 3% contingency flight plan.
As we all know we should care about one ...
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How does an airline decide when to cancel a long haul flight permanently?
BROAD QUESTION WARNING: Obviously the airlines cancel the routes because they are not making money, but would that not have been factored in when they start a route? For example, the current SFO-BLR ...
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How is the Flight Plan Data transferred into an aircraft/plane?
I know that pilots have to fill the ICAO standard flight plan and send it to the relevant CAA to be checked, updated if needed and finally approved before the flight takes off. what I am looking for ...
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What is the T and the I in dispatcher language?
From October 2019 ASRS CALLBACK, a captain told a story when the dispatcher
told me, “All the ‘T’s had been crossed, and all the ‘I’s had been dotted: everything has been done the right way, ...
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How is the transfer of an aircraft managed when it landed at a different airport than the scheduled one?
The question came to me when my flight could not land at the scheduled airport because of fog.
We landed in a nearby city (Turin instead of Milan). Is the aircraft transfered without passengers ...
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How do airlines handle SIGMETS?
In general, what is the action taken by airlines when presented with a SIGMET in the projected route. Will they go around it, cancel the flight prior to takeoff, or simply fly thought it anyway?
As ...
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What is the speed of a standard airliner during the different phases of the flight?
I would like to know how does the speed of an airliner vary as a function of time.
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What do Turnaround Supervisors do before departure?
Before the plane is able to take off, what calculations do Turnaround Supervisors have to do and what do they have to check before the plane departs?
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