Originally Posted by
mr did
I have had countless delays for technical "issues", mechanical and paperwork, for aircraft that haven't been released for flight. Do you mean that is how Engineering classify a technical delay?
No one really takes notice of what flight crew put down as a delay, they don't have the full picture. You see the aircraft not signed out, technical delay, cargo door open, cargo loading, passenger door open, passenger handeling. All you see is the what, you are unaware of the why.
You can say well the aircraft was not signed out, engineering could turn around and say it was scheduled for a check but arrived back late. It is an interconnected series of events.
In the finger pointing session when all departments come together to go through every flight then things come out in the wash. The timing schedule has a number of assumptions built in, a jet that has been released for flight is one of them.