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Re:Southwest operational meltdown as hundreds of flights can... by bobthepanda on Monday October 11, 2021 @01:22PM (#28830659)
Yeah. Part of Southwest‘s high utilization rate is their ability to turn around planes and crew quickly.

In the event of widespread disruption, planes will not make it to their next airport to become a different flight, nor will their crew. Crew can also only be awake and working for a limit of time, so if the disruption causes a crew to go over that limit they are not going out until the next day, etc.

With cloud computing, it‘s a bit different because which host you‘re using in a region doesn‘t really matter, but for airline a specific plane with specific people need to be in a specific time and place.

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Re:Southwest operational meltdown as hundreds of flights can... by smsm42 on Tuesday October 12, 2021 @01:07AM (#28836290)
But not using the same plane would not make it any better, neither would using a hub - that's my point. This is a common problem, but the properties outlined in the parent post which are supposedly specific to SW do not make the problem worse.
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