Flight Planning

[F9DXER]

For our flights that are usually payload critical, I'll at least run them when I first sit down for a shift, that way, IF there is a problem making the weight, I can start fiddling around with it early, and let the planners know if we need to start thinking tech stop.

Sounds like what ATA would do - sell the airplane for more than it can carry and plan on flying 1 hour farther than it was designed to do.
Then let dispatch figure out how to get it to work.

 

[O&M]

Don't know if this is still the case, but I was told by a UAL dispatcher, that their midnight shift dispatchers worked up all the releases, and the day shifts would review and update as necessary

 

[O&M]

I used to do 2 to 3 hours in advance. When you started getting down to an hour prior, the station agents would start calling and asking for it.