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Supposedly the company has given this latest directive to dispatch following the CI400 fiasco:
CI200-300 for flights up to 10hrs.
CI60-70 for flights up to 14hrs.
CI40-45 for freighters.
This applying to the B777 fleet.
Are you guys seeing this on the line?
Curious as to what is actually being planned on the B777 ULRs. DXB-GRU/IAD/BOS/ORD/SEA and the returns to DXB. Westbound block times are very close to schedule block. Eastbound the block times are often quite a bit shorter than schedule block. But the company does not want crews slowing down?
CI200-300 for flights up to 10hrs.
CI60-70 for flights up to 14hrs.
CI40-45 for freighters.
This applying to the B777 fleet.
Are you guys seeing this on the line?
Curious as to what is actually being planned on the B777 ULRs. DXB-GRU/IAD/BOS/ORD/SEA and the returns to DXB. Westbound block times are very close to schedule block. Eastbound the block times are often quite a bit shorter than schedule block. But the company does not want crews slowing down?
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East Asian layover, CI200 on the way out, fly time 40 mins less than block, CI55 on the way back, flight time 8 minutes longer than block
BOS was cost index 60
That does go hand in hand with what dispatch is supposedly planning the different block times with.
The eastbound ULRs , expecially: BOS/GRU/IAD/ORD to DXB are regularly returning to DXB 40-50 minutes early.
These used to be planned at CI10, however that has changed it seems.
You would think gate space etc. is an issue when flights are regularly arriving that much earlier back at DXB, because the schedule block times are too long, especially the ULRs. Why are these block times so conservative?
However EK certainly knows the real block times and uses those for the hubs gate planning, aircraft rotation etc.