Failures and FREP

[Todd Meek]

Hello Logan. This is going to really ultimately be up to your Hub Manager on how he would handle these paticular situations. I can only speak for myself being the KLAX Hub Manager so my answers may or may not be the same as your Hub Managers. In the case of a diversion becuase of mechanical problems or weather or whatever the case may be, I would ask a pilot to file a frep with the flight # that he is flying and put the departure airport and the diverted airport as the arrival and submit the frep. Then the pilot would finish the flight after the problem has been resolved and submit a second frep same flight # but use the diverted airport as the departure and the airport you were originally aiming for in the arrival airport. Hopefully I haven't confused you yet. I have not ran into a "Crash" situation yet, but in that case I guess my answer would be similar. Lets say we have a flight from KLAX (since that's my hub) and I'm flying to KBOS and I have double engine failure somwhere over Missouri and we crash. Someone is going to "respond" to that crash so I would have the pilot file to the closest airport where the crash occurred (going on the assumption that everyone survived and was bussed to this airport) then complete the flight in a different aircraft from that airport. Again, this is what I would do, can't speak for your hub manager.