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Old 31st Mar 2010, 14:19
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TangoUniform
 
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Refiling or better known as redispatch is used daily by many US airlines heading westbound from Europe. They are origianlly dispatched to some intermediate destination, say BOS, and then redispatched as a "domestic" flight, where the fuel requirements are less than international. Sort of the same as EK in some cases. ATC never knows the difference and doesn't take into account that BOS could be a destination.
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