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Thanks for explaining. I always suspected there was a good deal of stubbornness involved.
And it still feels funny to take a A343 to the East Coast and return from SEA in a A333.
And it still feels funny to take a A343 to the East Coast and return from SEA in a A333.
One bizarre route for LH (and Swiss for that matter) on four engines is Europe to Tel Aviv. LH have stopped now, but for many years it has a B744 and A346 every day on that route. The aircraft were full, but the fuel tanks must have had less than a 1/3 full at take off. Every other European airline is now single aisle and several US carriers are now on two donks.
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With Swiss it could be that they have A340s that would otherwise be lying idle during the day - many of their long distance routes (SIN, BKK, HKG, JND, GRU) leave late at night and arrive early morning. They are replacing some 340s with 777s - I would have thought that for commonality issues it would have been better to wait a couple of years for 350s but maybe they couldn't get early delivery slots, or Boeing offered a good deal, or something else.
BA operate a 747 to Moscow but that's because there is a market for the long haul product. I don't know if that is true for LX to TLV - there must be a lot of transfer traffic.
Cathay were renown for - profitably - "misusing" long haul aircraft on regional routes and still operate 747s from HKG - TPE which is under two hours, although their 747s are rapidly being retired.
I've heard it said that senior staff at VS were against purchasing A340-600s bit that SRB wanted four engines for long haul.
With Swiss it could be that they have A340s that would otherwise be lying idle during the day - many of their long distance routes (SIN, BKK, HKG, JND, GRU) leave late at night and arrive early morning. They are replacing some 340s with 777s - I would have thought that for commonality issues it would have been better to wait a couple of years for 350s but maybe they couldn't get early delivery slots, or Boeing offered a good deal, or something else.
BA operate a 747 to Moscow but that's because there is a market for the long haul product. I don't know if that is true for LX to TLV - there must be a lot of transfer traffic.
Cathay were renown for - profitably - "misusing" long haul aircraft on regional routes and still operate 747s from HKG - TPE which is under two hours, although their 747s are rapidly being retired.
I've heard it said that senior staff at VS were against purchasing A340-600s bit that SRB wanted four engines for long haul.
