Originally Posted by
El Bunto
Apparently both Belfast and Durham-Tees are switching to Embraers as of next week, just when I thought they'd need the Cityjet RJs most. No idea how KLM are managing their fleet.
I'd make suggestion that the reason they have been sub-chartering in during this transition period between Fokker/Embraer is because they've, back to back, had crews offline retraining on the Embraer, ground school, simulator, touch and go's, umpteen sectors line training waiting in the queue for the next Training Captain to become available etc.
Reading here there has been innuendo that KLM haven't been doing their planning, I'd suggest that their training department has been doing their planning very efficiently and, as yet, KLM don't have a spotter planning department!