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The State of Affairs in Civil Airlines

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 July 2016

H. G. Rossiter*
Affiliation:
British European Airways Corporation

Extract

In terms of cost, BEA estimate this to be worth over £3 000 000 a year or, putting it another way, 7% of the revenue we receive has to pay for unreliability.

No specific allowance is made for the rectification of defects in the scheduling of aircraft during its turn-round time and to cover this we aim to schedule two stand-by Tridents, two Vanguards, one Comet and three Viscounts for their respective fleet sizes, so that if the snags are anything but minor, the stand-by aircraft take over while the defective one is rectified.

Type
Colloquium on Aircraft Reliability in Service
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Aeronautical Society 1966

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