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Originally Posted by Philip Argy
Even LCCs should be smart enough to pick a few ports where a crew of 5 would be good insurance...
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Qantas operate the 737-400 with minimum crew to outports (some VERY remote!) all the time, though it was far more common in recent years gone by (HBA, LST, OOL, MKY, MCY, TSV, HTI, GOV (charter), ISA, GYL (charter), BME, KTA, PHE, KGI, ASP, AYQ, CNS, ADL and the list goes on and on. For that matter, Qantas also operates the leased BA 767s min crew on every flight (except short dinner services). They still go to DRW, CNS, ADL, HBA (last summer) and CBR.
It is one of those things. The number of times a flight attendant goes sick is miniscule in the grand scheme of things - in nine years only twice has a colleague been offloaded at an outport. Using your logic would we see three-person tech crews onboard a flight to an outport!?