Originally Posted by
Miraz
Does anyone have enough insight into this to know if BA operated the flight at maximum practical CI to go after the record?
I haven't heard of it being a deliberate attempt to break the record ( doesn't sound like the BA way TBH) ...I do know for certain that there were a few other Atalantic crossings flown with CI 0 / low Mach numbers in the last 48 hours that were ludicrously quick ( bet cabin service on some of the BOS-LHR flights was interesting) so I suspect the record breaking was an accident..
I have yet to hear how long it took the record breakers to get allocated a stand after landing...
