Does anyone know why Aer Lingus used a Titan Boeing 757 to operate DUB - AGP - DUB this evening? Should of being a A320 and they used Europe Airpost B733 to operate DUB - BCN - DUB this evening. The EI109 hire-in during the week was due to a tech issue with the A330 fleet. All other hire-ins and cancellations were due to lack of cabin crew.
EI it seems have misjudged their crew levels. The have too many cabin crew at max hours and so not have enough to crew all their flights. Thus over 10 departures from Dublin in the last 5 days have been hire-ins.
Seems that their plan of increasing the workload of the cabin crew has its drawbacks.........yet again we have EI mgmt making a mess of a situation that should have been expected well in advance. Instead of telling the crew to work more why not introduce a proper system to monitor crew hours and adjust as appropriate.