Ghost flights
ITN news last night reported that BA are flying empty aircraft around the world (my wife did wonder how an empty aircraft could fly, "surely there must be someone onboard to fly it"). But I did not really understand what they were telling me. ITN reported flight BA... (cannot remember the number) flew empty to Los Angeles. If it had a BA flight number, was it a scheduled flight, if so how was it empty, did they not sell any tickets?
Or was it an unscheduled flight to reposition an aircraft? ITN suggested it was because no cabin crew were available for the flight, but an aircraft was.
So many questions, and typical of news reporting, it seemed to me it was a story about 'green' issues without much regard to what is actually happening.