Originally Posted by
Wycombe
This is the latest in a run of negative publicity - although any airline's aircraft can run into unexpected CAT of course
Maybe, although looking at a weather aftercast it does look like they ran into this problem in the tail end of a weather front strung out across the mid-Atlantic (the start of this will be over the UK in the next couple of days).
Routing to avoid suspect weather, or going straight through it, is something that does differ between operators, as anyone who has experience of various carriers operating in Asia around the equator can tell you. Fuel efficiency calculations for a direct track come into it, as does substantial experience by crews in operations in such areas, and differing approaches for seatbelts on/off in the cruise. I suspect that the readership on here are almost universally "seatbelts on" throughout cruise anyway, something not duplicated by the general pax numbers.
Meanwhile we have a carrier here based in ... well, it's difficult to tell where. Aircraft registered in Malta, seemingly stood in Chateauroux, France between contracts, website that gives no indication where their executive offices or senior management are.