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Originally Posted by Doug Taylor  I'm not sure, but I think mainline dispatchers work quite a few flights simultaneously, but I might be (and have often been!) wrong. |
Yes, that is correct. You are often wrong.
Just kidding, that is correct about multiple flights. I got to take a tour of NWA SOC and each dispatcher would have about five to ten flights on their screen that they were doing.
The way that company has it set up, and others might be the same, was each dispatcher would have a type of flight. One guy would have MSP to the west coast. Another desk would have DC-9 turns out of MSP, another DC-9 turns out of DTW, another desk would have a couple MSP/DTW to Florida, another would have international westbound in daytime and eastbound at night, a desk for the five flights to Asia out of MSP/DTW, another for the west coast to Asia, etc.
Very neat to see the dispatch and meteorology department of an operation so large.