Southwest to Stop Overbooking as United Uproar Echoes

Re:Southwest to Stop Overbooking as United Uproar Echoes by grkvlt on Thursday April 27, 2017 @11:27PM (#14216685)

Needs to be a fast mode of transport to keep crew duty hours down, so ground vehicles are out. I was once on a plane at Dublin airport that had to wait for a few minutes behind a small jet that turned out to be the RyanAir (UK and Ireland low cost carrier) company LearJet which they use for positioning flight crews in an emergency or time sensitive situation. Surely United should have chartered a small jet to get crew there, should be doable pretty quickly?

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Re:Southwest to Stop Overbooking as United Uproar Echoes by disgruntledphd2 on Friday April 28, 2017 @09:53AM (#14219341)

Ryanair is an entirely Irish company, and is one of the largest airlines in Europe.

They are also fanatical about not being late or cancelling flights. I used to work for them, and there are posters everywhere about the 18 minute turnaround times (they recently expanded this to 28 mins, when they introduced pre-booked seats as standard).

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Re:Southwest to Stop Overbooking as United Uproar Echoes by dx034 on Friday April 28, 2017 @10:34AM (#14219659)

As far as I know, the Ryanair Learjet is mostly used for spare parts. It's cheaper bringing a spare part via private jet than cancelling a flight with 180 passengers. For crew transportation, the 80 stations that Ryanair has in Europe should ensure that there's a spare crew only a few driving hours away

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Re:Southwest to Stop Overbooking as United Uproar Echoes by dimaggiosghost on Friday April 28, 2017 @12:58AM (#14216954)

All depends on the money. Based on what they offered the passengers, they weren't going to rent a private jet.

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