Originally Posted by
brakedwell
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 DC-8 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 comfortably above the line and well above the legal minimum on shut down.
I wonder if that puts you in the 757 record books ? KHI-LGW with 229 pax in 9h 5m
I was Ops controller at Ogdens when we handled AE until the end so we may have met....I often wandered out to the 757's to see how the turnarounds were going...A few pals were AE CC too
Flew AE (and MON) 757 as pax LGW-BAH-CMB-MLE a few times on my hols....a looooong drag to get to a desert island