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Old 31st Mar 2020, 22:42
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Interesting to see that Qantas will operate QF1 and QF2 via Darwin on two days this week, instead of the usual stop in Singapore. As far as I am aware, this would set the record for the longest A380 passenger sector?

QF001 SYD1700 – 2115DRW2300 – 0615+1LHR 388 24MAR20 / 25MAR20
QF002 LHR2035 – 2355+1DRW0115+2 – 0700+2SYD 388 24MAR20 / 25MAR20
Probably via DRW as it is the shortest route, more or less the same than the shortest route via Asia, HKG, which is virtually on the great circle route (shown as just 2mi longer on GC mapper) and there is already a flight via PER. Unlikely to work on a permanent commercial basis hence PER is used.
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Old 1st Apr 2020, 04:22
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Tasman routes

The QF Oz routes were the Kangaroo route from LHR going East calling at all stations (lol)

There was the Coral route East across the Pacific, the USA and to LHR - TEAL did this one.

and the QF Fiesta Route via Mexico was it??
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Old 1st Apr 2020, 08:05
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Originally Posted by DaveReidUK
Totals gradually reducing, down to about 250 movements yesterday. Compares to a pre-Covid level of around 1250 movements per day, so currently down by 80%.
And the passenger figures would probably be even more depressing.

I have just seen yesterday figures from two German airports where passenger number were just 2 per cent and 0.2 per cent of the same day one year before....
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Old 2nd Apr 2020, 17:36
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Single ops next week

Heathrow moving to single runway ops on 6th April.
Quote "A temporary measure due to the unprecedented circumstances, reduction in flights etc.
Alternating weekly, and alternation on easterly ops, something we can't currently provide during our usual schedule"
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Old 3rd Apr 2020, 23:43
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Reports on the web that not only is T4 to close temporarily, but T3 may also be mothballed as well
Anyone able to confirm if this is definitely true ?
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Old 4th Apr 2020, 07:44
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but T3 may also be mothballed as well
I hope not - that's my least favourite smell.
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Old 4th Apr 2020, 07:47
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Originally Posted by davidjohnson6
Reports on the web that not only is T4 to close temporarily, but T3 may also be mothballed as well
Anyone able to confirm if this is definitely true ?
From the Heathrow Airport website

Terminal consolidation: Over the coming weeks, we’re moving airline operations from Terminals 3 and 4 into Terminals 2 and 5..
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Old 4th Apr 2020, 08:32
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London Heathrow - Arrivals March 2020

Sunday 1
638

Monday 2
634

Tuesday 3
627

Wednesday 4
631

Thursday 5
617

Friday 6
629

Saturday 7
551

Sunday 8
615

Monday 9
602

Tuesday 10
583

Wednesday 11
554

Thursday 12
590

Friday 13
589

Saturday 14
529

Sunday 15
567

Monday 16
518

Tuesday 17
441

Wednesday 18
354

Thursday 19
366

Friday 20
326

Saturday 21
279

Sunday 22
277

Monday 23
225

Tuesday 24
194

Wednesday 25
183

Thursday 26
203

Friday 27
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173

Sunday 29
173

Monday 30
126

Tuesday 31
120

Total

13,115

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Old 4th Apr 2020, 10:19
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Originally Posted by BHX5DME
London Heathrow - Arrivals March 2020
And for April, so far, running at around 100 arrivals per day.
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Old 7th Apr 2020, 15:43
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Quite strange to see 09L departures today - watched a BA787 fly straight out over London on the runway heading, also seen a few unusual (visual?) approaches - interesting times.
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Old 7th Apr 2020, 19:12
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Originally Posted by trident3A
Quite strange to see 09L departures today - watched a BA787 fly straight out over London on the runway heading, also seen a few unusual (visual?) approaches - interesting times.
Up to now, 09L departures weren't completely unknown - there were an average of 2-3 per week last year - but they were almost all late at night, so hard to spot.

Now we'll see them during daylight, though on average around 85% of all departures will still be on westerlies or on 09R.
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Old 10th Apr 2020, 16:03
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Having moved to single runway ops, are they now doing cleaning and maintenance on 09R?
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Old 10th Apr 2020, 17:12
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Originally Posted by PAXboy
Having moved to single runway ops, are they now doing cleaning and maintenance on 09R?
Runway maintenance is usually done during nighttime SRO, so I would assume that it's now being done during the day.

Monday will see the southern runway used instead, probably on westerly operations.
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Monday will see the southern runway used instead, probably on westerly operations.
BBC Weather Forecast suggests a moderate NE breeze on Monday and an easterly drift for most of the week
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Old 11th Apr 2020, 17:45
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Originally Posted by Suzeman
BBC Weather Forecast suggests a moderate NE breeze on Monday and an easterly drift for most of the week
Yes, I should never try to forecast the wind direction.
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If UK is officially under lockdown, why the hell are there so many flights still arriving/departing out of Heathrow? Surely, this cannot be helping in containing the virus? Your thoughts?
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If UK is officially under lockdown, why the hell are there so many flights still arriving/departing out of Heathrow? Surely, this cannot be helping in containing the virus? Your thoughts?
Cargo, including passenger aircraft used solely for cargo, as well as repatriation flights perhaps?
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Old 12th Apr 2020, 14:59
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If UK is officially under lockdown, why the hell are there so many flights still arriving/departing out of Heathrow? Surely, this cannot be helping in containing the virus? Your thoughts?

they asked the Chief Medical Officer this on one of the recent afternoon Briefings.

He said the virus is here, it's been here for a couple of months, it's all over the UK. You're not going to catch it from some guy from New York, you're going to catch it from your mates, your family or the guy next door.

Stopping flights will have zero effect
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Originally Posted by Asturias56
they asked the Chief Medical Officer this on one of the recent afternoon Briefings.

He said the virus is here, it's been here for a couple of months, it's all over the UK. You're not going to catch it from some guy from New York, you're going to catch it from your mates, your family or the guy next door.

Stopping flights will have zero effect
Is this the same Chief Medical Officer who thought herd immunity was a good idea? If stopping flights will have zero effect, why don't they just tell all UK based airlines to start flying again? Considering the UK will probably end up with the 2nd highest death rate in the world, is he really sure what he's talking about? One more infected person who could infect multiple others is one to many in my opinion.
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Old 12th Apr 2020, 16:29
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Originally Posted by SamYeager
Cargo, including passenger aircraft used solely for cargo, as well as repatriation flights perhaps?
That's partly true.

But that doesn't explain, for example, continuing services on UK domestic routes connecting LHR to Manchester, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Aberdeen, etc.
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