Long flights dispatch
Hello Ladies & Gents,
After the BA incident, some people were talking about dispatch requirements and that sometimes with a long haul flight since the TAF is highly restrictive and will required some serious extra fuel, a flight will be dispatched to another destination and then when new TAF in the air comes in, it will be dispatched to where it is commercially supposed to fly.
Does anyone know of anything like this or has heard on it and can chime in and explain that procedure in details? I'm curious as it seems rather odd to me that flights will be dispatched to anywhere else but destination initially.
I assume that with the new 32hrs TAF life has become easier?
thanks!
-downwindabeam