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Old 5th Nov 2017, 08:29
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73qanda
 
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73Qanda, you gave the impression that QF and DJ aircraft carry an alternate.
Sorry Bloggs I didn't intend to give that impression.
I am concerned that uneducated readers might think that "the big players in Australia" do carry alternates. They don't, as QF found out in their A330/CBR and A330/PER when the weather changed enroute a few years ago.
Fair enough. For all the uneducated readers out there;
If you're on a Qantas or Virginia Australia jet, the company has instructed the Captain that he or she must ensure that at all times while airborne, there is sufficient fuel in the tanks to fly to an airport that has not dropped below the alternate weather requirements, or if it has, they have the fuel to hold until it is better again. This airport may be your destination and as such you won't necessarily have an alternate if the weather is mint.
Caveat, real life may get in the way in which case you are technically in an 'emergency' and the Captain will do whatever he or she thinks is best.
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