Originally Posted by
crewmeal
Egyptair use a 737-800 on the Luxor Heathrow route every Monday (2500 miles) and during September the temperature can reach around 40+c at departure time. So imagine the the weight and runway length needed for that.
Yes they do, and also have used an A320 in the past - basically anything they had lol (777 & 747's in the old days when the market was buoyant)
Luxor has a very long runway an the MS flight does depart at 08.55...
Back in the day when Luxor was very popular (always on Mondays and Thursdays lol) - Astraeus 737/757, Thomson 757, Monarch 757 A321 and A300/A330 saw all the flights back to UK depart usually in late afternoon or evenings when it was still very hot - No problems and rarely tech stops on the way home.
I flew Aswan from/ to LGW on both Astraeus 737-700 and GB Airways A320 - both full and no stops.
(ASW is as south as you can go, apart from Abu Simbel airport but there are no charters there anymore)