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Does anyone know how the turnarounds for crew work on long-haul, weekly flights? E.g. if a crew flies out to PVR, it's an 11 hour flight so they can't fly back and they would have to wait a week there to fly the flight back.
What happens to the crew when they land at PVR?
Reason why Manchester and Gatwick long haul flights operate differing days of the week.
Crew would operate MAN-PVR (Friday) PVR-LGW (Sat)
Gatwick crew on Saturday could be slipped up to Orlando or Cancun to operate the return flights.
Similarly reverse pattern- Maximum out of station time 2 days.
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Anyone know why TUIJ has stayed at LGW, it got delivered to MAN and as far as I am aware operated a few MAN flights before moving to LGW and staying there. I would have thought they'd have rotated it round all the long haul bases throughout the summer particularly MAN GLA and BHX as well as LGW, or was the plan to always keep it at LGW for the summer?
azz767 - Yes always the plan A few familiarisation flights from Manchester including several inter European routes then down to Gatwick till end of UK summer scheduled where its off to Scandinavia for the winter Thailand shuttles.