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<title>AirlineDispatch RSS Feed</title><link>http://www.airlinedispatch.com/index.html</link><description>Hot News&#x21;</description><dc:language>(null)</dc:language><dc:creator>hlehr@airlinedispatch.com</dc:creator><dc:rights>Copyright 2010 Helmut Lehr</dc:rights><dc:date>2010-07-24T11:16:56+02:00</dc:date><admin:generatorAgent rdf:resource="http://www.realmacsoftware.com/" />
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<lastBuildDate>So., 18 Apr 2010 18:48:40 +0200</lastBuildDate><item><title>Make it invisible&#x21;</title><dc:creator>hlehr@airlinedispatch.com</dc:creator><category>Aviation</category><dc:date>2010-07-24T11:16:56+02:00</dc:date><link>http://www.airlinedispatch.com/blog/files/65102d5c044888f8c9e849b67d7e1e71-2.php#unique-entry-id-2</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.airlinedispatch.com/blog/files/65102d5c044888f8c9e849b67d7e1e71-2.php#unique-entry-id-2</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Charter prices are dropping and some black sheep's try to lower the prices even more, though it is not clear to me how they are able to survive: Their prices are sometimes even lower than the fixed costs of the airplane.


...But telling a crew member right after check-in for a proceeding flight from home base: Well, we have a change in schedule and you need to go home now and check-in again after 6 hours is neither fair nor legal if the charter flight is than at almost maximum flight duty time anyway!


...Imagine a crew member is traveling one hour to get to it's homebase, check-in, get told to go back home (another hour), wait for four hours, travel one hour to the homebase, check-in again than start a flight duty at night of another eight hours. ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>First BA-Meetup in Northolt UK</title><dc:creator>hlehr@airlinedispatch.com</dc:creator><category>Aviation</category><dc:date>2010-04-28T07:06:04+02:00</dc:date><link>http://www.airlinedispatch.com/blog/files/5367af75d3ecdc3c8d97c9bae744bddd-1.php#unique-entry-id-1</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.airlinedispatch.com/blog/files/5367af75d3ecdc3c8d97c9bae744bddd-1.php#unique-entry-id-1</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Commander Bud Slabbart who is the idea behind the BA-Meetup wanted to create a Meetup which is, compared to the annual NBAA Schedulers & Dispatchers conference, more focused on the European Business Aviation Schedulers & Dispatchers.


It was a great success and everybody attending was enjoying the professional and on the other side personal atmosphere of the meeting.


...A second Ba-Meetup is planned this year to be held in Abu Dhabi, UAE nov 1-2, 2010
]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Dispatcher in Business Aviation</title><dc:creator>hlehr@airlinedispatch.com</dc:creator><category>Aviation</category><dc:date>2010-04-18T18:48:59+02:00</dc:date><link>http://www.airlinedispatch.com/blog/files/40ba28afec843f6acf47b2771717ebf5-0.php#unique-entry-id-0</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.airlinedispatch.com/blog/files/40ba28afec843f6acf47b2771717ebf5-0.php#unique-entry-id-0</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Historically a flight dispatcher is situated in an airline operation or dispatch centre assisting line pilots with performance calculations, flight planning, weather analysis and briefing, performing as many pre-flight tasks as possible for the flight deck crew. 

...The captain of a U.S. carrier describes professional dispatchers like this: "My guess is, the average passenger probably has no idea that dispatchers even exist, but to pilots they are absolutely indispensable members of the team, along with mechanics, customer service reps, load planners, ramp workers and many other groups that are an airline's "unsung heroes." 

...As a conclusion it is to say that in Europe a licensed dispatcher is not always recommended but at least basic and recurrent training would help and raise the staff and the companies standard as well as the acceptance from operations staff and pilots.
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