The extended delays in getting the Max off the ground are difficult for airlines like American since they work up to a year ahead of time coordinating schedules of flight crews, maintenance teams, airport operations, ticketing managers and others.
Vasu Raja runs flight schedules for American Airlines, coordinating 6,800 flights a day on more than 1,500 planes to more than 365 destinations in 61 countries.
While airlines work on flight schedules up to a year in advance, they typically lock them in three to four months ahead of time. "This is probably one of the more hard, if not the hardest, scheduling problems that the airline could have," Raja said, as he walked through American's network operations center in Fort Worth, Texas.
For Vasu and his team, that means coordinating 6,800 daily flights with more than 1,500 planes to more than 365 destinations in 61 countries. And remember, for each of those flights, American must make sure there is adequate staffing, including pilots certified to fly the appropriate model plane.
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