Originally Posted by
Mateo
1.) It takes a while to descend a jet; 3 miles per 1000' is a rule of thumb, so it takes 100 miles to descend from cruising altitude.
2.) If it's not a 'land immediately' situation, you generally want to divert to an airport where your airline has a station.
3.) MCO is a decent size JBU station, so they may have mx facilities there that can repair an A320.
4.) The nearest JBU station to the divert point is either JAX or CLT, but those are both small stations with (I think) E190 flights only, so not a lot of spare capacity. MCO may have been the only station in the general vicinity that would have been able to re-accommodate the passengers.
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