If this is not the right place to post this, I apologise.
Can someone please explain why BMI flights LHR - THR/OIIE stop in BAK/KBAK or TBS/UGTB on the way to THR and again on the way back to LHR, usually in PRG/LKPR.
I know that the Iranian authorities will not supply enough fuel to fly THR LHR, thus requiring a stop on this leg, but what I can't understand is why they stop on the way to THR, refuel, continue to THR, landing relatively heavy, and then have to refuel again on the way home.
Why not simply operate LHR -THR non stop and refuel on the way home? I tried to get an explanation from the (very kind and helpful) CC, who by the way suffered a lot of rudeness and almost abuse from pax on this route about the stops, but the explanations were not consistent.