Originally Posted by
Lookleft
but I was wrong. .
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Folks,
There's another admission from Lookleft, who'd a thunk it??
Megan,
Multiple were the times, in those days, we listened to Pam Am, later United,hear from their Operations Control the words: "No re-dispatch". United OPSCTL was, as I recall, in Chicago, not sure about PanAm.
The great operational advantage we had/have, unlike FAA Part 121 carriers, or Australian domestic airline operations at the time, our Operations Control was wearing four bars and sitting in the flightdeck, not in some office somewhere, with, all too often, weather way out of date.
Tootle pip!!
PS: As a matter of interest, the P&W engined B747SP always had better range than RR powered, it was the severe limitations of the imposition of their OPSCTL that was such a commercial advantage to us, nor did we always have to hold an alternate.