the ALT field is back to a comair home base? if fuel permits - CPT 1692nm or JNB (300 nm further)
or Walvis Bay at 1220nm or WDH at 1352 nm
or up to Ascension 700nm with no/little pax facs.
the TUi flight from LTN what are the ALT's ? back to Ascension or to Namibia? surely not enough to go back to BJL?
how does the TUi Holland/ASA maths add up with costs of empty posn'g flights to/from Holland to LTN or will they sell those legs to punters?
given the tourism interest by German and Dutch tourists to St Helena and the RSA would it not make sense to sell the flight through from Holland via LTN? ASA's original plans were to serve a route network that will operate from London, down to the island and on to Cape Town with a Boeing 757-200 aircraft....
why did they use TUI Holland anyway?
assume TUI crew change at BJL and that crew will shuttle BJL-HLE-BJL with no night-stop on the island? (about the same crewing time as a LTN-TFS and back, a long enough day)
Thomson TUI UK still have good 757's (not sure if ETOPS equipped or is ETOPS even needed for HLE?
they op now to BJL as well as Sal and Boa Vista non-stop with 757's, crew change there and on to HLE? or stick with a BJL changeover...
757 is the right a/c but Cape Verde stop off means a crew shuttle to HLE and back similar to doing a LTN-SSH-LTN, a rather long day)
the 757 surely makes much more sense again to seek one?
see here
go to 12m 42s the clip shows the comair 737-800 do a first low pass/fly-by then an unexpected GA then the first landing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vndwvM6ieTw