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by conistonwater 1906 days ago
One "silly" reason why minor failures result in flying back to the original airport is sometimes that the original airport is some sort of hub for the airline with plenty of equipment and personnel for maintenance, which makes it cheaper for the airline to repair the plane specifically there compared to another airport. If you follow avherald.com even a little bit, you will notice a lot of incidents result in exactly that.