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Is the A380 the normal equipment from now on?
With this leap in capacity, (plus the EDI-DXB), even with significant hubbing opportunities at DXB, this level of service makes no sense to me. I worked in airline sales and marketing for over ten years, so hopefully have a feel for catchment areas,seats and viability.
With this leap in capacity, (plus the EDI-DXB), even with significant hubbing opportunities at DXB, this level of service makes no sense to me. I worked in airline sales and marketing for over ten years, so hopefully have a feel for catchment areas,seats and viability.
Its running daily until the end of September i think. Dubai goes back up to twice daily at the start of June with the 777 taking the evening slot and the A380 moving to lunchtime.
Not sure what happens in October. EK have suggested this could be an annual seasonal upgrade if successful. No plans to run all year round as yet.
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I guess EDI plays into it, but we'll have to see - notice QR ramping up frequency at EDI too, perhaps EK actions may be motivated to some extent by this.
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I believe it's a 489 seat A380 that's being used - The service is going from two LD 77Ws pd to 1 LD 77W + 1 A380. So it's going from about 720 seats ewpd to about 850ish - about 135 extra seats ewpd on top of the capacity they've been operating at GLA for many years. As such I'm not sure it's really much of an unreasonable rise, I'm sure EK have increased capacity like this at many airports across their network - when the service sent from 1 to 2 daily many years ago that was a bigger jump in capacity and it seemed to go fine.
I guess EDI plays into it, but we'll have to see - notice QR ramping up frequency at EDI too, perhaps EK actions may be motivated to some extent by this.
I guess EDI plays into it, but we'll have to see - notice QR ramping up frequency at EDI too, perhaps EK actions may be motivated to some extent by this.
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Airbourne at 2307 to DXB, presume a mechanical issue, fixed and off we go. Due in DXB one hour late nothing much out of the ordinary. Inbound pax 499 on a config of F14C76Y399 so a tad chocker
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Afaik there has been a problem with the domain. I believe a new replacement forum is in the pipeline, so hopefully that should be up and running soon.
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Have you factored in inbound delays?
One outbound sector had to return to stand to offload a passenger + hold luggage.
Remember scheduled times are still set to B777 slot of 1 hour 45 minutes.
Obviously cargo has had to be re-routed during this period of single runway use at Dubai
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Assuming the GLA Seoul charters gone for this year (given that Riga has gained the GLA 2018 flight numbers/timings) ?
https://www.routesonline.com/news/38...rters-in-2q19/
https://www.routesonline.com/news/38...rters-in-2q19/
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No disrespect, but last time I was in Isle of Man, I couldn't wait to leave!
