Narrative:

Flight was dispatched to ZZZ with notams for ZZZ showing that no legal runway was open for the time of our arrival. Which caused us to divert to a nearby airport. It goes without saying I as the captain told sole responsible for dispatching this flight under the supplemental air carrier certificate. That being said we as crew members must have some faith in the system. We have to ask why an airport that was NOTAM to be unusable a good [number of] hours before departure time was even allowed to be flight planed. I received my copy of the plan before departing the hotel. This is the problem we live with today; the crews are expected to go through all the paperwork and find all mistakes in a very short period of time. In this every increasing complex environment we operate in where it is not uncommon to receive up to 50 pages of information to be deciphered in a short period of time. The current operation is setting us up for failure. My only solution to this is to institute a dispatch system. The dual responsibility will go a long way making sure that more than one person is looking at all the information.

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Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: B767 Captain reported they diverted because the filed destination airport had been NOTAMed closed during the scheduled arrival period; but neither the Captain nor Dispatch caught the closure notice.

Narrative: Flight was dispatched to ZZZ with NOTAMs for ZZZ showing that no legal runway was open for the time of our arrival. Which caused us to divert to a nearby airport. It goes without saying I as the Captain told sole responsible for dispatching this flight under the supplemental air carrier certificate. That being said we as crew members must have some faith in the system. We have to ask why an airport that was NOTAM to be unusable a good [number of] hours before departure time was even allowed to be flight planed. I received my copy of the plan before departing the hotel. This is the problem we live with today; the crews are expected to go through all the paperwork and find all mistakes in a very short period of time. In this every increasing complex environment we operate in where it is not uncommon to receive up to 50 pages of information to be deciphered in a short period of time. The current operation is setting us up for failure. My only solution to this is to institute a dispatch system. The dual responsibility will go a long way making sure that more than one person is looking at all the information.

Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site and automatically converted to unabbreviated mixed upper/lowercase text. This report is for informational purposes with no guarantee of accuracy. See NASA's ASRS site for official report.