15+ Hour Flight Taking off on runway less than 10K feet
So today I saw something I'd never seen before. A 15+ hour flight Qatar airlines flight from SFO to Doha on A350, took off on SFO 1R (calm conditions), which is only 8600 feet. Sometimes the long haul to Europe might use that, but I've never seen any of the long distance Asian flights or Middle Eastern flights take off from it. They nearly always use 28L/28R.
Just a sign of the times, with flights running very light with the pandemic and/or the A350 can really get in the air real quick?