Re: ETOPS dispatch
There is obviously some variation in how the rules are applied and in the U.K. it seems to depend on equipment. My (U.K.) company operates with the 36 hour/2 sector clearance for a type originally designed from the outset as an ETOPS aircraft (A330) and with a restriction to single sector dispatch for a different type (B767-300). In our case the CAA have varied that restriction for any 767 route via BFS, therefore LGW - BFS - SFB is allowed ETOPS release in LGW but LGW - GLA - SFB has to have it's release in GLA. In this particular case it's down to engineering support, or rather lack of it !