Originally Posted by
MerchantVenturer
Boeing 767s can and do operate out of BRS. When TOM last had summer transatlantic charters from BRS to Florida and Mexico they used the former First Choice B 767s that were configured with fewer seats (270 from memory) than the original Thomson aircraft. This enabled Sanford to be reached non-stop in the last two years of operation. Previously they had an en route fuel stop which remained in place for Cancun and was at MAN.
. When this didn’t happen some people conjectured that the incident later that year when a B 767 suffered a hard landing at BRS causing considerable damage to the aircraft played a part in the subsequent non-appearance of the 787. The AAIB report highlighted, amongst other matters, that runway 09 had seen a disproportionate number of hard landings with B 767s and as a consequence some people wondered whether Thomson would operate 787s into BRS.
That's what I was thinking. The CAA stated in the accident report of the B767 heavy landing that Bristol should look into having aircraft of that size there and it is surprising that they still think it is ok to operate aircraft larger than this ie the 787
Last edited by heading 125; 29th Mar 2016 at 17:39.
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