Originally Posted by
DaveReidUK
No airline or airport can afford to have twice as many as the budgeted number of engineers or ramp workers sitting around the crewroom as a contingency against a few flights arriving early or late.
This one always comes up, that the only route seen as an alternative to having every resource planned up to the theoretical hilt is to have DOUBLE the amount. Not a sensibly calculated contingency percentage but it has to be DOUBLE.
BA don't have DOUBLE the crew at their overseas outstation handlers, yet manage far better than back at base. Shouldn't it be the other way round ?
in the knowledge that there will be some days when everything goes pear-shaped and aircraft have to wait for stands/steps/tugs, etc.
I'm not speaking (I believe) about everything pear-shaped days. I am speaking about perfectly straightforward ops days.
In my experience, maternity hospitals do the same.
Not mine (admittedly as involved spectator).