{"id":154046,"date":"2024-12-03T07:00:18","date_gmt":"2024-12-02T21:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/airlines-backup-planes-how-many\/"},"modified":"2024-12-03T07:00:18","modified_gmt":"2024-12-02T21:00:18","slug":"spare-planes-how-many-do-airlines-have-on-tap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=154046","title":{"rendered":"Spare Planes: How Many Do Airlines Have On Tap?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How many reserve planes are typically lying around in airlines? Not many. Airlines can&#8217;t function like the             <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"1835\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/air-force\/\"  >Air Force<\/a><\/span> and have numerous expensive jets lying around &#8220;just in case.&#8221; Still, aircraft breakdown and mishaps happen while political\/weather\/other factors may ground their aircraft.         <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink-article\" data-id=\"2033730\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/virgin-australia-qatar-airways-lebanon-rescue\/\" >Airlines are also called on to perform rescue flights when a crisis breaks out<\/a><\/span> (these aircraft need to be pulled form somewhere). In these situations, airlines may need to call on another aircraft\u2014but do they have reserve planes lying around?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Airlines don&#8217;t keep many spare aircraft lying around idle, but there are other ways airlines can ensure some flexibility.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1719,396,3452,567,8995,423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-154046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-air-france","category-aircraft","category-charter-flight","category-guides","category-rescue-flight","category-united-states"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=154046"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154046\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":154049,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154046\/revisions\/154049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=154046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=154046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=154046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}