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Samair From United Kingdom, joined Feb 2005, 210 posts, RR: 0
Posted (5 years 9 months 3 weeks 2 days 15 hours ago) and read 1400 times:

aircraft rotations and shuttles
hya !
i was just wondering how often a commercial aircraft flies in a day i was once talking to a bmi baby cabin crew and she said her a/c would fly 6 times that day! is that the norm? do they have a new set of crew for each return journey ? and does every a/c have over night maintainence?
thanks,
sam

the captain has now dimmed the lights for take off this is a routine procedure for flights during the hours of darkness!

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EMBQA From United States of America, joined Oct 2003, 9177 posts, RR: 14
Reply 1, posted (5 years 9 months 3 weeks 2 days 14 hours ago) and read 1360 times:

That is hard to say.

A B747 or A340.. maybe once or twice...a B737 with WN 6 or 8.. a B737 with CAL 3 or 4.

"It's not the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog"

Dutchjet From Netherlands, joined Oct 2000, 7864 posts, RR: 61
Reply 2, posted (5 years 9 months 3 weeks 2 days 14 hours ago) and read 1328 times:

Depends on the aircraft, the airline, the route structure, the crews schedule, the day of the week, maintainance, etc......there is really no general answer to your question.

Deltaguy767 From United States of America, joined Jun 2005, 624 posts, RR: 3
Reply 3, posted (5 years 9 months 3 weeks 2 days 13 hours ago) and read 1307 times:

Basically you can pretty much guaranteernthat the shorter range that the a/c has, the more trips it will runrnthat day. For example, DL had an MD-88 that would run on a daily triprnlike this:

6AM:BDL-CVG
9AM:CVG-ORD
12PM:ORD-ATL
3PM:ATL-JAX
5PM:JAX-ATL
8PM:ATL-BDL

Probablyrnthe crew would change up at CVG and ATL at some points during the triprnmost likely after the first leg, and after the third leg. Perhaps therna/c could be changed at CVG or ATL if needed for MX since the flight numbers would change. I hope that this helps.

Cheers from BDL and BAF, wave

DeltaGuy767

A Good Landing is one you walk away from!

Samair From United Kingdom, joined Feb 2005, 210 posts, RR: 0
Reply 4, posted (5 years 9 months 3 weeks 2 days 12 hours ago) and read 1252 times:

i always thought a/c would be based at 1 airport !not many airports though out the day

the captain has now dimmed the lights for take off this is a routine procedure for flights during the hours of darkness!

Ntspelich From United States of America, joined Aug 2003, 764 posts, RR: 0
Reply 5, posted (5 years 9 months 3 weeks 2 days 9 hours ago) and read 1212 times:

Here's the routing for WN ship # 486 today:
FLT 2932 CMH-MDW
FLT 76 MDW-FLL
FLT 1929 FLL-TPA-BHM-SDF-BWI-MHT

It's all in how you utilize the bird. Other ones, primarily our long(er) hauls get a bit simpler:
#720's routing today was simply SEA-MDW-BWI-MDW-SEA

United 717 heavy, you're facing the wrong way. Any chance you can powerback to get off of my deice pad?

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