Originally Posted by
Vokes55
What's the obsession with aircraft utilisation? As was said a few posts back, JNB and CPT have made BA a killing for years operating overnight both ways. Why change it?
BA gets an average of about 11 hours per day utilisation on its B744 fleet.
So an aircraft that does LHR-CPT-LHR, arriving back around 36 hours later after having flown two 11-hourish sectors is actually getting more than average utilisation.