Commercial Fixed Wing
Dispatch Dispatcher
Distraction; Situational Awareness
Deviation / Discrepancy - Procedural FAR; Deviation / Discrepancy - Procedural Published Material / Policy
General None Reported / Taken
Company Policy; Environment - Non Weather Related; Human Factors
Failed to add an alternate on the flight when required by FOM.All of my other flights inbound to ZZZ1 had ZZZ2 listed as an alternate.  It was simply a missed step on this one.  This was one of the earlier departures on my desk and I was still dealing with a full outbound as well as a complicated swap between Aircraft X/Aircraft Y.  While OJT was not being conducted at my desk; the Recovery Specialist was conducting OJT in the other chair.  Overall and simply put; additional focus by myself or the Captain would have solved this issue.  There is also an issue of our airline running behind schedule due to COVID-19 and those flights that would normally be airborne are now departing causing additional distraction.  I would suggest that management take at least a temporary look at better matching our flights with the scheduled workload.
Dispatcher reported not adding an alternate to a flight.