Chapter 46: The gas in my house is not turned off
This was the first time Xu Cang saw Lu Jinghua so angry. Last time he flew the plane and it scraped the tail of the plane, he didn't see Lu Jinghua so angry. Perhaps he felt that Lu Jinghua was really angry this time, and there was no other movement in the entire dispatch room except Lu Jinghua's roar.
Yue Hai, who was standing in the corner, suddenly felt something in his heart. He looked up slightly and saw Xu Cang looking out of the door. He was stunned for a moment, then he winked at Xu Cang, signaling him to leave quickly.
It was not known whether it was because Yue Hai's "little movements" were not well controlled, but Lu Jinghua caught Yue Hai in an instant, turned around following Yue Hai's sight, and immediately caught Xu Cang.
I don’t know if he was too angry, but when Lu Jinghua turned around, there was still a slight blush on his face. From a visual point of view, he was indeed very angry.
"What for?" Lu Jinghua asked unhappily.
"Um, I came here to help." Xu Cang told the truth.
Lu Jinghua was stunned for a moment, then suddenly realized: "Is it the administrative class?"
"Ah?" Unexpectedly, Lu Jinghua misunderstood that Xu Cang was assigned to the administrative class in the dispatch room. However, Xu Cang did not explain much, but just followed Lu Jinghua's words and continued: "Uh, about the same."
Lu Jinghua waved his hand: "Go somewhere else first, there are some things we need to discuss here."
Yue Hai's mouth twitched a few times. How could they be discussing business? It was clearly Lu Jinghua unilaterally scolding them. However, Lu Jinghua was not to blame for getting angry. It was really their own fault.
Lu Jinghua just said that thunderstorms have occurred frequently in many places recently, which has caused various delays and diversions. This has also led to restrictions on the flight time and duty period of the crew.
The reason why Lu Jinghua said the plane was stuck at Lushui Airport and couldn't take off was because of the second co-pilot on duty. This second co-pilot had flown a Jianchuan-Zhongchuan-Jianchuan flight before the Jianchuan-Lushui-Jianchuan flight.
Originally, the second co-pilot had no problem flying four segments on time. But the problem was that the first two segments were delayed by three hours due to bad weather at Nakagawa Airport. During these three hours, the crew did not leave the airport for a rest, and all of them were counted as part of their duty period.
As a result, the originally ample duty period suddenly became tight.
According to normal handling methods, if the dispatcher can monitor the second co-pilot's duty period in real time, the correct approach should be to replace the second co-pilot and not let him fly.
The problem was that the dispatcher had not monitored the second co-pilot’s duty period. The second co-pilot thought that since the dispatcher had not mentioned the duty period to him, there was no risk, so he did not consider overtime.
This was a two-way trip, so the second co-pilot continued to fly the Jianchuan-Lushui-Jianchuan flight. Then, after the plane landed at Lushui Airport, it was unable to take off for a long time due to excessive tailwinds. Then the dispatcher realized belatedly that the second co-pilot was about to exceed the time limit and could not fly at all.
The key point is that the Jianchuan-Lushui-Jianchuan route is a special route. The crew must be a three-person crew. Without the second co-pilot, the plane cannot take off.
As a result, the situation suddenly came to a standstill!
Honestly speaking, the pilots must have some responsibility in this matter , after all, the pilots themselves have the responsibility to monitor their own duty period. But the main responsibility still lies with the dispatchers, and there is no way to escape this. It is precisely because of this that no matter how much Lu Jinghua scolded them, the dispatchers did not dare and had no position to make any rebuttal.
Another important issue is that today is the second co-pilot's fifth day on duty and he needs to rest for at least thirty-six hours afterwards.
For any airline, it is unacceptable to let a plane sit at the airport for a day and a half. Moreover, Blue Sky Airlines has a tight schedule. If the plane really waited for a day and a half at Lushui Airport, the subsequent plans of the plane would be completely messed up.
Facing Lu Jinghua's order to leave, Xu Cang did not leave immediately, but asked tentatively: "Mr. Lu, is there a flight without anyone flying? Are you short of a second officer?"
Xu Cang is now like a hungry sponge. When he heard that there was a flight, his eyes lit up.
Lu Jinghua was so worried that he waved in the direction of Yue Hai: "Tell him about the situation. Let's go outside and talk."
"Let's talk outside?" Yue Hai understood the implication of Lu Jinghua's words, trotted out of the office, and pulled Xu Cang to the stairwell.
Xu Cang didn't understand why Yue Hai was so mysterious about everything he said, but he saw Yue Hai looking Xu Cang up and down and said with a smile: "I didn't expect you to really come."
"Shouldn't we be thinking of ways to solve the problem now? How can you still laugh?"
Yue Hai spread his hands and acted indifferent: "What can I do? Things have already come to this."
Xu Cang was curious: "What's going on?"
Yue Hai explained the matter to Xu Cang in detail, and finally said helplessly: "Recently, there have been delays, diversions, and cancellations. Oh my, we are so busy that we really don't have the energy to take care of every detail."
"Then can't we find someone to go to Lushui Airport to replace him?" Xu Cang said, and pointed at himself: "I can do it. The rest period is definitely enough."
"If it were that simple, President Lu wouldn't be so angry." Yue Hai explained: "The Jianchuan-Lushui route is in line with the government's poverty alleviation work. Lushui is extremely remote and difficult to reach by land. We can only rely on air transportation, and only our company flies to Lushui, and there is only one flight a week, so..."
"We can add a temporary class..."
Yue Hai looked at Xu Cang as if he were an idiot: "In order to save one plane, you have to take another one in, right? Besides, the cost is too high, the higher-ups won't agree to it."
Xu Cang touched his head shyly. He had been thinking too much recently and could come up with such a shocking and bad idea.
"So there is no way at all?" Xu Cang was quite disappointed. He thought he had got a chance to catch him.
"Yes!" Yue Hai smacked his lips, "You can take a minibus to Lushui."
Xu Cang asked curiously: "That's fine, what's wrong with taking a car?"
"Are you going to go on a ten-hour bumpy mountain road?" Yue Hai took out his mobile phone and opened his email inbox to show Xu Cang: "We found five replacement pilots, but soon we received these things, five aviation and medical grounding notices. In order to avoid cooperating with the arrest, these guys actually resorted to such despicable means as pretending to be sick . Hey, Xu Cang, why are you leaving?"
Xu Cang had already walked several steps away at this time. He coughed twice and said, "I suddenly remembered that I didn't turn off the gas when I went out. Ahem, I need to go back immediately."
Yue Hai's mouth twitched: "You can come up with a more convincing reason."
