Well Put me down sick, you need to have some inside knowledge to pass some of the comments you have made and expect to be taken to seriously. Sure aircraft deliveries are planned way in advance. PLANNED being the operative word. What actually happens in some cases is that new aircraft don't leave Seattle or wherever they are coming from exactly on the day they were PLANNED to and then most of our aircraft seem to go through Christchurch for winglet modifications these days and they don't always get done by the PLANNED day and so a schedule that is PLANNED in advance around an aircraft delivery may just have to be rearranged at late notice to accomodate these UNPLANNED delays. And believe it or not UNPLANNED delays occur with scheduled maintenance as well. It's all part of life in the aviation universe.
As for speaking to each other at
VB it goes reletively well considering the magnitude of growth (something like 120%) in fleet size and changes within the various departments that have occurred in the last year or so. I have seen a lot worse at places where nothing has changed in years.