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Some large UAVs over perimeter caused Gatwick to shutdown last night.
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TUI should be operating the first revenue 787 flight ex LTN this afternoon to BGI due to the LGW chaos
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It will be interesting if the 787 can fly to Barbados non stop from Luton |
Rossiya Airlines seems to have a departure back to Russia at 18:00 after arriving at around 16:15. Not sure if this is linked to Gatwick. |
Plus two more TUI flights - Agadir and Arrecife.
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Apologies that should be Las Palmas not Arrecife.
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Originally Posted by pabely
(Post 10340221)
WOW Air diverted from LGW, surprised it didn't go to STN
AFTN message sent declaring the airport at capacity |
Another WOW on its way this evening.
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Originally Posted by compton3bravo
(Post 10340733)
Another WOW on its way this evening.
WW814 is showing on the Stansted arrivals due 2015. |
WW814A just arriving LTN
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Some of the easyJet flights arrived following PAN calls due lowering fuel.
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Originally Posted by LTNman
(Post 10340442)
It will be interesting if the 787 can fly to Barbados non stop from Luton Just checked Flightradar 24, with the aircraft G-TUIE departing very late and with around a half hour to go before landing the 787 is indeed flying non stop to Barbados from Luton. I am assuming that with it being close to Christmas the flight would have been full. Edit, just landed after a flight of 8 hours 15 minutes. |
Despite Gatwick opening, I see the Wow Air flight this morning remains on the Arrival board.
I also see that Blue Air are code-sharing with Cyprus Airways on their Larnaca flights. |
Originally Posted by LTNman
(Post 10341149)
G Just checked Flightradar 24, with the aircraft G-TUIE departing very late and with around a half hour to go before landing the 787 is indeed flying non stop to Barbados from Luton. I am assuming that with it being close to Christmas the flight would have been full. Edit, just landed after a flight of 8 hours 15 minutes. Was this a cruise ship flight? I'm guessing if so, there was a need to get these passengers expedited out to the ship as quick as possible, before the ship departed. I think the 787-9 might have been a bit more of a struggle to operate non-stop from the airport. TUI are in a fortunate position with it being winter where a lot of the fleet is not in as much demand, as during the summer and can support these extra flights while the LGW base was grounded. |
Although Barbados may be within performance the 787-8 form Luton yesterday, it was not a hot summer day and there was a good headwind component for take off.
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I think some of you need to put this into respective And calm your excitement. The TUI Barbados flight was a divert due to the LGW drone incident. It wasn’t a proving flight for LTN 787 longhaul ops. TUI are more than knowledgeable on what their 787 can do and from where. All TUI’s eggs are in one basket. That basket is called LGW so I’d stop getting over excited and get a grip on reality. They won’t be launching 787 longhaul flights from LTN any time soon due to an unscheduled divert that happened yesterday. End of. |
pamann You have completely missed the point. No one has suggested proving flights, no one is getting excited, no one has suggested TUI long haul. WE all know it was a Gatwick flight. The point that was being made is how far the 787 has travelled non stop from Luton. End of.
Now calm down and stop getting excited. |
Originally Posted by pamann
(Post 10341451)
I think some of you need to put this into respective And calm your excitement. The TUI Barbados flight was a divert due to the LGW drone incident. It wasn’t a proving flight for LTN 787 longhaul ops. TUI are more than knowledgeable on what their 787 can do and from where. All TUI’s eggs are in one basket. That basket is called LGW so I’d stop getting over excited and get a grip on reality. They won’t be launching 787 longhaul flights from LTN any time soon due to an unscheduled divert that happened yesterday. End of. It is not everyday a long haul fully loaded wide body operates out of Luton, and think this is the first 787 long haul flight to operate from the airport! I was simply acknowledging it was good to see what capabilities the airports runway/infrastructure can support with this aircraft type. I'm very pleased to hear you confirm TUI know what they were doing with their 787's! I thought they might just fully load a 787 up and take pot-luck chance to see if it will clear the end of the runway and or just take a chance, if they have enough fuel to get to Barbados non-stop and if not just ditch in the Atlantic! {Sarcasm} :rolleyes: Unfortunately I'm not a pilot, and don't have the 787 hand books to hand to check the technical operational requirements of the aircraft! |
787-8 needs 2600 meters of dry runway in standard atmosphere at maximum takeoff weight. The colder it gets the less they need. Luton is just shy of 2200 meters. Don't have proper tables on me at the moment tho
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The TUI cruise I'm going on in February goes from Jamaica. I suspect (although I may be wrong) it's just a normal bucket and spade flight, especially as there are passengers out there that need to get home.
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