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Or diverse to another airport because of weather. and things not so critical, scheduling crew shifts and hotels and making sure passengers aren't bordering sweltering hot planes in the summer. >> with these hot temperature, make sure that we're pre-cooling them. >> reporter: every single flight is assigned a dispachl who are signs off on the flight plane and tracks its performance and problems until it lands. sglits's actually a straight line to go. >> you see with 1200 flights a day a couple hundred dispatchers. >> reporter: the goal, keeping everyone safe and moving hopefully on schedule. th...

But it is pretty much everything else. from this room, senior staff in virtually every department oversee united's operations at five u.s. hubs -- chicago, denver, los angeles, san francisco and washington dulles and thousands of domestic and international flights. >> for the most part, it all comes through this immediate area. >> reporter: shifting a plane's route ever so slightly to make up for a late departure, preparing a flight crew for a possible holding pattern or diversion to another airport because of weather. and things seemingly not so critical, scheduling crew shifts and hotels and...