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BBCapt
5th Nov 2020, 09:01
Greetings Ppruners.
According to Flightradar24 BA are running a regular LUT-FRA (BA3384) on an A300-600. Anyone know anything about this? It doesn't pop-up on LUT departures.
Thanks in advance
willy wombat
5th Nov 2020, 09:30
Where is LUT?
DC3 Dave
5th Nov 2020, 09:45
Laura Station - Australia
sergy2k
5th Nov 2020, 09:49
It's a DHL flight, Luton to Frankfurt
pabely
5th Nov 2020, 09:49
It is DHL on behalf of BA from LTN - London Luton
DaveReidUK
5th Nov 2020, 10:30
It is DHL on behalf of BA from LTN - London Luton
BCS6717 - usually operates LHR-FRA, but appears to have switched to LTN-FRA on Wednesdays and Thursdays.
BBCapt
5th Nov 2020, 11:14
I guessed it was something of the sort, but was curious to find out. Pprune wins again, much appreciated.
pabely
5th Nov 2020, 11:19
BCS6717 - usually operates LHR-FRA, but appears to have switched to LTN-FRA on Wednesdays and Thursdays.
Was reported on Luton thread about increased/reinstatement of more DHL flights at Luton https://www.pprune.org/showthread.php?p=10914234
Jenny Tails
5th Nov 2020, 12:22
Laura Station - Australia
Quite a stretch, even for the mighty A300
BRISTOLRE
5th Nov 2020, 19:23
i suspect with most of the short haul and domestic ops scaled right back from today for the forseeable future there will be more use of the DHL network by BA and full use of the A300F/B757F DHL fleet. Yesterday a DHL A306F did an Arlanda-Luton LTN-Arlanda return flight.
Interestingly and i dont know who is booking these, European / Maleth are doing a package of A340-600 flights Bournemouth-JFK-Bournemouth the ex Virgin machines
Manchester Exile
5th Nov 2020, 20:18
I think the A300 would struggle getting in and out of Laura Station. A dirt strip less than 4,000 feet long!
https://cimg1.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/1008x510/lut_d6aebeb58e726ac78e7698ee4aa4c5d365569b98.png
compton3bravo
6th Nov 2020, 16:09
The Luton-Arlanda-Luton flights are not that unusual.
Jenny Tails
7th Nov 2020, 00:06
I think the A300 would struggle getting in and out of Laura Station. A dirt strip less than 4,000 feet long!
https://cimg1.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/1008x510/lut_d6aebeb58e726ac78e7698ee4aa4c5d365569b98.png
You would get it in, just might be a tad difficult getting it back out in rainy season
DaveReidUK
7th Nov 2020, 06:27
Just goes to show that, while using airport codes in your posts saves lots of typing (well, 2 keystrokes in this case :)), it's a good idea to make sure you're using the right one to avoid confusion.
LGS6753
7th Nov 2020, 11:23
Was there any confusion? Really?
Anyway, in my youth I recall the Luton controllers using the nomenclature "Lima Uniform Tango", presumably referring to a beacon.
almost professional
7th Nov 2020, 11:36
It was a beacon, NDB, 4 miles east of the field.
Buster the Bear
7th Nov 2020, 15:03
Infamous 'airmiss' as it was called back then. Light aircraft instructed to route via Luton overhead, pilot flew overhead the LUT (NDB) and came close to an inbound making a procedural approach onto, as it was back then RW26. This occurred during a rare outage of the AR15 radar. Nomenclature change as a result. Route via the Lima Uniform Tango, or via the Luton airport overhead or defined runway threshold. I digress......