Originally Posted by
Wycombe
Flew in XLED last week on an absolutely rammed BA11 to SIN, no issues.
A few days prior to that the BA11 due to be operated by XLEK was cancelled, getting Simon Calder's attention in the Indi as it was full of people going to the F1. Terrible
PR for the airline.
This was one of the aircraft that's been to MNL for maintenance IIRC, is that part of the issue?
My workings suggest they need 10 aircraft to operate the current schedule, and have 12. Reasonable to expect that at least 1 will be in scheduled maint at any one time?
That is, of course, part of the problem. There is no real 'slack' in the system of anything unexpected happens. One A380 is normally away in MNL for a major check, as BA outsourced their heavy maintenance for the A380, as they did not want to build a hangar extension at BAMC [Cardiff] even though they bid for the work, plus one other is normally undergoing a minor check of some sort at LHR, which means with the schedule, if any of the aircraft in service go 'tech' unless you can either 'shuffle the pack' to swap aircraft on particular routes or get the aircraft in the hangar up and back into service early, you are into a cancellation scenario.