Apologies if this has been covered elsewhere.
Just been reading a report condemning the BAA for allowing British (LHR) based airlines to uplift 55% of their normal fuel as opposed to foreign carriers only being allowed 40% of their normal fuel. As far as I'm aware, British carriers are tankering into LHR, in most cases uplifting return fuel at the outstation for shorthaul. Do "foreign" carriers not do the same?
American, South African, Singapore and Qantas are very vociferous in their complaint as all have to tech stop to uplift the balance of their trip fuel...... wouldn't they have to do that even if they were allowed 55%?
One long haul captain is quoted as saying that when carrying extra fuel, "it pushes the nose down and you have to keep pulling it back".... conjures up an interesting image.
