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Old 18th Sep 2017, 10:55
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Originally Posted by bluesideoops
Must be a terrible design if so easily interrupted and absolute madness that an entire airport would rely entirely on only one pipeline (never heard of redundancy and contingency planning?)
They've heard of it, but rejected it after a cost-benefit analysis. It shows the weakness of pure MBA style management, but not naivety. BTW, I see that Melbourne is also having a fuel shortage. In some situations, single points of failure are quite expensive to avoid.
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