46- Dispatching to Marginal Airports

5 Responses to 46- Dispatching to Marginal Airports

1. Matt Norton says:

   February 1, 2019 at 2:30 pm

   Great episode. I am a Flight Dispatcher for a Canadian air carrier. It’s interesting to hear the differences in regulations compared to us. In Canada there are no regulations regarding landing limits at your destination. We can dispatch to an airport that is 0sm as long as we have a legal alternate. Our no alternate rules are also a bit different. We need 2 separate suitable runways (reciprocal doesn’t count), need either 6sm and 1500’ or 3sm and roughly 2500’ (depending on FAF altitude). 1hr before and after and no risk of freezing precipitation or thunderstorms. We are allowed to apply these rules to US airports as well.

   Regarding “compacted demand”, I think that is what is commonly know as a spike in demand (eg. too many airplanes arriving in one hour with less demand before and after). I think what you were referring to is “compression” or “compression on final” which is a real thing when there are strong winds aloft.

   Anyways. I look forward to your next podcast and hearing more about your operations.

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2. Mark Van Raam says:

   February 13, 2019 at 3:27 pm

   Any tips for an Oshkosh virgin? I’m driving from Eastern Virginia and I have an Air BnB in . Oshkosh. I joined EAA because the tickets were cheaper. I’m not a pilot, just an Av Geek. I’ll be there for 2 full days and 2 half days. ..
   I hope to do a couple of meets ups with the APG crew, but other than that, what’s the best way to see the displays?

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   • flyingandlife says:

     February 13, 2019 at 3:30 pm

     Get a time machine and make time go slower. The best way to see Oshkosh in my opinion is to do it with a group of people or a few people and you just walk around. There’ve been many times are we had a plan and we were gonna go see the warbirds and we had an Oshkosh moment and went and spent 45-50 minutes doing something completely different seems something else. Boeing Plaza changes every day sometimes twice a day and that’s always fun and interesting to see what gets put there. I will warn you once you go once you’re gonna want to come back.

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3. Mark Van Raam says:

   February 18, 2019 at 8:15 am

   Thanks for the Oshkosh advice.

   Different subject for the podcast. What drives scheduled flight changes?
   My example:
   I booked a flight from Newark NJ (EWR) to Lafayette LA (LFT) in October 2018
   DL flights 1427 to ATL and 1216 arriving at 2135
   2 Months later it was switched to DL 226 and DL 1368 arriving at 1946
   One month after that it was switched to DL 2777 and DL 2042 arriving at 2241
   I ended up canceling, getting a full refund, and booking a UA flight. My problem was the late arrival time.
   My question is what drives these changes?

   Thanks. Great podcast

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   • flyingandlife says:

     February 19, 2019 at 1:59 am

     It will take some research but I share the frustration. This all comes from marketing they build the schedules monthly and make changes as they go. I just booked a flight with ACME for a convention the MRS. and I attend I’m certain that I will get the same change emails as we get closer

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