A321 Range Question - MON5329/21SEP
Folks,
My wife and daughter, returning from Hurghada to Manchester, were delayed by sixteen hours yesterday.
The aircraft had to tech stop in Venice, supposedly because of "shortage of fuel due to weather conditions". Once on the ground, it went tech., there was no engineer, the crew eventually went out of hours, and the passenger ground handing was utterly, utterly shambolic. Not a good week for Monarch...
My query is over the 321's range - surely this sector is well within it's capabilities? It's hardly a DC6 going west across the pond in 1953... Is there some issue with fuel at Hurghada that requires tankering? This is all a bit puzzling.
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