EK A340-500 Back to America

[yardman]

Any truth to the rumour that the 345 will be put on one of the double daily flights to either to LAX or IAH?

[cerbus]

Emirates thought about it but thought better of it. After all it burns 10% more fuel and carries 15 less people than the LR and 100 less pax than the ER.
Also the Airbus fleet does not have enough manpower to cover the long haul operation.

[skytrax]

wrong rumours. B777 will go there.
GRU will also go B777-300 with a weight limit.

[EGGW]

Both LAX on the 777 bids for October, if that means anything. Second IAh only starts 1st of November. Manpower issues on either fleet may swing things of course, regardless of fuel burn or pax capacity issues.

EGGW

[Iver]

When will the A380s start replacing some 777s on US flights? Are the A380s returning to JFK?

[sleeve of wizard]

[FONT='Arial','sans-serif']As per 11SEP10 GDS timetable display, the following is Emirates’ latest 2010/11 Winter operation,[/FONT]

[FONT='Arial','sans-serif'][FONT='Arial','sans-serif']Dubai – Houston[/FONT][FONT='Arial','sans-serif'] NEW 2nd Daily service EK213/214 originally to be operated by 777-300ER, now switches to -200LR (Now 2 Daily 777-200LR)[/FONT]

[FONT='Arial','sans-serif'][FONT='Arial','sans-serif']Dubai – Los Angeles[/FONT][FONT='Arial','sans-serif'] NEW 2nd Daily service EK217/218 originally to be operated by 777-200LR, now switches to -300ER (Only minor capacity increase due to weight restriction)[/FONT]


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[Wizofoz]

I heard a rumour that some of the 300ers coming next year had more thrust and a significantly increases MTOW.

That would certainly help on West Coast flights.

Do any Gurus know if this is true?

[CAYNINE]

.... actually at our washup they said they had wanted to put the 345 into LAX and HIA..... but surprisingly enough there wasn't the crew available to do ULR flights. Their words.

Planning wonderful thing when it's done with a longer visionary period than a month.

[halas]

Having engineering coverage may also be a problem at the further US points if the 345 were put on the runs.

And let's not forget the freight that would be left behind.

halas

[donpizmeov]

Halas,

I know the 200lr has a bunch of fuel tanks in its belly, but is that really going to make it leave cargo behind?
Wish they would put the 12 1st class seats into it like the bus, much better for staff travel.

the Don

[hotcurry]

Something about 375 T with new wing and GE's increased to I hear about 125k.

[EGGW]

Belly tanks in 200LR have all been removed. 300ER confirmed on the early doors LAX, should be interesting....

EGGW

[The_Broon]

EGGW - check your PMs please.

Cheers, TB

[springbok449]

Dont think engineering in LAX would be an issue for A345 as VS operate daily flights with the A346 so am sure an agreement could be reached...

[Kamelchaser]

300ER into LAX with an early morning arrival?

Will certainly be interesting; LA often has low cloud first thing...the numbers must be pretty interesting given it's a bit of a stretch for the 300ER anyway, let alone with fog just about every morning. Perhaps it'll work with an early morning departure over the winter...but I would have thought it'll right up at Max structural TOW, and still be payload limited and fuel critical.

Give me the 200LR 0820 departure anytime!

[Bypass ratio]

I have a buddy who operates out of Long Beach. There's no problem with weather in LAX period. A bit of low cloud in the morning is no biggy. Plus, there is a Cat 3B approach. It is however 150nm longer than KSFO (from OMDB)so hopefully no decision point plans...!

[varigflier]

The "marine layer" as it is called doesn't get bad enough to disrupt flight ops and it burns off by noon om most days.

[etops777]

LAX

Not much of Marine Layers in LAX compared to SFO. Never a problem flying out of LAX for me.