How Airlines Decide Which Plane to Use | Wendover Productions
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How Airlines Decide Which Plane to Use | Wendover Productions

B2Upper-intermediateOctober 8, 202628 min
  • Business & money

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You can tell it's inefficient because low-cost airlines like Southwest and Ryanair streamline

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Each additional aircraft variant in a fleet adds very real cost through increased operational

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Why airlines fly which plane where is mostly demand. Big planes fly to big places, small planes fly to small places. But it's not all demand. An incredible, nearly endless array of factors dictate the rest of it.

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While each airline is unique in how it decides which aircraft to fly, as an example, United Airlines has 28 different aircraft variants. This is quite inefficient. You can tell it's inefficient because low-cost airlines like Southwest and Ryanair streamline

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their fleet down to one aircraft type. Each additional aircraft variant in a fleet adds very real cost through increased operational complexity. Maintenance costs more, crewing is more complicated, even airport operations get less efficient.

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