My flight was delayed because the main computer on the plain broke. I am interested to know where do they keep spare airplanes and what steps do they need to go through before they can act as a replacement.
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It depends a lot on the situation, but the easiest thing to do is take one of the next planes coming into that location and give it to your flight crew. Then you all get on that one, and one of the later flights gets your original (fixed) plane.
Planes make money when they’re flying, so they don’t like to keep spare planes sitting around. They’d rather get you flying now with a different plane. Sometimes, it’s as easy as “Okay, plane 438 is broken, so you are flying on plane 456 instead. Go get on that one.” They should have your luggage moved, and your crew sets up the new plane with the needed fuel, etc. They’ll probably have a cleaning crew or maintenance crew come check if they need to check it before it goes out again.
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