Originally Posted by
rog747
That would have been an AE flight from BKK or Penang routing - KHI - IST - LGW ?
how on earth did you manage KHI - LGW non stop with 229 pax - wow
The planned routing was BKK - KHI - BEL - LGW - Copenhagen with a full load of large Danes. I was keen to reduce the aggro caused by an impending Gulf War and used every trick I had learned when flying DC8 freighters. As it was a night flight traffic was light and we were given optimum flight levels for most of the route. I used manual throttles a lot as the auto-throttles tended to hunt up and down at that time. Numerous direct routings also helped. At TOD around Abbleville the fuel was comfotably above the line and well above the legal minimum on shut down.