Originally Posted by
TURIN
No it doesn't. It proves that the aircraft is in the middle of a busy summer schedule and is being utilised to the maximum. There is no limitation that I can find for the length of time that the winglet can be missing. Why take it out of service when you can very safely and legally operate under the DDG until the next scheduled hangar input?
Interesting, our CDL has a 10 day limit on a winglet being missing!
But then we do put tighter restrictions on ours, most likely because of the excessive fuel penalty in this instance.
Another airline we used to handle don't have any time limits in their CDL, which I always found a little strange!