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From: warren@ihnss.UUCP (Warren Montgomery)
Newsgroups: net.consumers
Subject: Re: UNITED cancelations
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Date: Fri, 22-Jun-84 14:49:16 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jun 22 14:49:16 1984
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I doubt that they do this regularly intentionally.  I have flown
United lots, and the only times I could remember this happening was
when there were two flights with essentially identical departure and
arrival times and they cancelled one.  The airlines don't have spare
planes in many areas they serve, so if one flight is cancelled, it
fouls up the schedule for some time, because the planes don't arrive
where they are supposed to.  I have flown from Chicago to Newark on
empty planes many times, on flights that United flew only to get the
plane to Newark in time to load up with passengers going someplace
else from there.  You would think that they could plan better, but
scheduling isn't easy, particularly when it isn't under their
control all of the time.  If they were to plan to dump a half full
flight, they would have to make sure that the plane wasn't needed
where it was going.  (Both of my experiences of cancellations were
with flights returning to Chicago from popular vacation areas in the
off season, so I would guess that they simply scheduled extra
capacity year round and cancelled a whole round trip in slack
periods.

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	Warren Montgomery
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