Originally Posted by
asdf1234
we have discussed this to death already - the runway has limitations that means during summer ops payloads are restricted. Nothing to do with aircraft swaps or anything else. .
A very misleading statement. Only a very small proportion of flights may need to be payload restricted. Take off weights are restricted but this is likely to
only translate into a payload restriction on the longer routes on the network. Short sectors like AMS, CDG and JER clearly should not be affected. It will also depend on the aircraft type planned for the flight. The runway performance of the A320 is superior to that of EZY's (relatively) low powered A319s. It is EZY's choice in terms commercial risk to continue to deploy their A319s on the more critical sectors such as FAO and AGP, though no doubt there are operational reasons such as rotational patterns why they do it.;. The need for this may well decline now that A320s form 50% of the SEN fleet. One might hope that the risk of tech stops or offloads will decrease accordingly..