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Originally Posted by Fuzz
I'm curious what the actual issue is with two fleets? We have more than one base, so you could split planes to specific bases and not duplicate facilities. Perhaps one plane is more suited to the north, so use it up there.
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True, but I think back to the old Westjet model that they seem to have abandoned now. It always seemed so clever to me. They flew one model of aircraft for a long time, whether it was empty or full. If your starter or some other widget failed in Saskatoon or Upper Rubber Boot, Nova Scotia, there was probably one on the shelf because there only needed to be one. If Bill the pilot in Kelowna called in sick, you could call any one of your other pilots in because they were trained on this model, you didn't have to get granular and figure out who, in this area, could fly this thing.
My dad was an aircraft mechanic for many, many years in the Canadian military. There are so many hours spent training all personnel, flight and maintenance, on a particular model, and then its' variants. The more you can streamline that, the better.