Or more informally, ETOPS=Engines Turn Or People Swim.
Damnit!
” I can’t even begin to imagine what kind of a “ruh roh” moment that must have been.
They ended up canceling the return flight and then ferried the plane back to Los Angeles empty.”
I can....
A scheduler and a dispatcher just lost their jobs.
That should have been caught somewhere along the line, even if it was a last-minute aircraft swap.
Way back, my first transatlantic flight was on a 767 just a few months after the aircraft got its approval.
As I remember, the flight path went further North to stay “in range” of land longer.
Obviously, transpacific flights are a bit different.