Sunday, June 5, 2011

The Good News and The Bad News

Well, the good news is that it's a spectacular day here in Hanoi.  Sunny and hot. 


The bad news is that yesterday I finally got my own scooter and our CEO, VP of Maintenance and I were planning to drive to Tam Dao, a National Park just north of Hanoi.

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Unfortunately, at 12:52am this morning, that same CEO called and said that we'd have an aircraft out of service today, so we (along with same previously mentioned VP-Maintenance) spent the next three hours trying to figure out how to put four aircraft-lines worth of full flights into three aircraft lines of flying.  It's not pretty when you lose one-quarter of your fleet just as the peak summer travel season has begun and you're booked at a load factor of about 75% for the day.  We patched together a backup plan as best we could and I got to bed about 4am this morning.

Needless to say, our roadtrip for the day has been cancelled.  I'm very bummed but the plan is to try again next weekend.  

3 comments:

  1. Too bad your day was spoiled. What would they have done if you hadn't been working in Vietnam?
    How far is the Park from Hanoi?

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  2. How fun you have your own scooter!

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