Originally Posted by
Vokes55
Although small fry in the grand scheme of things, the cost of getting crew to and from the other base is an expense. If this aircraft is originating in Newcastle, it’ll probably be fairly cheap as it could all be done without the use of hotels, however on longer W-sectors that require one or both crews to be in a hotel before or after, that’s up to 12 hotel rooms as well as the transportation expenses. That’s knocking on the door of £2000 per operation.
A lack of local engineering support and crew standby cover can make it expensive if things go wrong.
I would have thought even the longest of Ws (Tenerife?) from a base much further away than NCL would require just a single crew, no hotel expenses etc, and with modern aircraft and high maintenance standards you shouldn't be factoring in potential costs of engineering support because why anticipate technical faults when the risk should be minimal anyway?