{"id":25528,"date":"2024-04-07T20:45:12","date_gmt":"2024-04-07T10:45:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/pilots-diversion-decisions-guide\/"},"modified":"2024-04-07T20:45:12","modified_gmt":"2024-04-07T10:45:12","slug":"how-do-pilots-decide-when-to-divert-where-to-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=25528","title":{"rendered":"How Do Pilots Decide When To Divert &amp; Where To Go?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            Diversions are rare. A line pilot averages less than one per year, and the flying public might travel a lifetime without ever being part of a diversion. Diversions are always part of the plan but never a desired outcome for an airline. This results in crews and planes being out of position and passengers needing re-accommodation. Diverting costs a lot of money, but pilots and dispatchers do what they can to make the situation financially easy for the airline and streamlined for displaced passengers. Here&#39;s an explanation of what pilots think about during diversions.\n    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pilots and dispatcher work together to make sure the plane is on the ground with plenty of fuel still in the tanks.<\/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":[396,537,1049,629,495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-diversion","category-flight-disruption","category-pilots","category-worldwide"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25528","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=25528"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25529,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25528\/revisions\/25529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}