Originally Posted by
lomapaseo
Does the aircraft also carry shipped cargo not part of the passengers belonging? Might bear on total landing weight estimates being higher or lower.than typical for route
Hello Lomapaseo,
Not the case ! No Cargo being transported. All the space is used to transport the "luggage" of the Pax, which is loaded on pallets for the FWD Cargo, and containers for the AFT Cargo, and that space, most of the cases, is not enough for the whole luggage that the pax bring with them. One passanger can easily be returning with 50 kgs of luggage, and this is most of the passengers.
While at it ...
About Minna, Nigeria. Positioned there empty on one occasion sometime around 2008 from Saudi Arabia. We were asked to go there to pick-up pax going to Jeddah. We looked on Jepessen for it, but could not find it. Called operations and asked to be sent the Jepessen Charts for Minna, Nigeria. We were told at the time, around 2008, that there was no Jepessen Charts available for Minna. Minna was not a Jepessen airport. The only thing available at the time was the AIP of Nigeria.
Can not remember as it has been quite a while, but suspect that the runway is probably not very long ...