BA A380 at Gatwick
BA A380 G-XLEB just positioned at Gatwick from Heathrow for overnight parking before departing to Manila at 0500hrs Sunday for heavy maintenance. Apparently no slot at LHR tomorrow for a similar time departure. |
Interesting. Heathrow's runways aren't typically busy at 5am on a Sunday morning, or at that time any other day come to that.
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Presumably a 5am departure from LL would mean use of a night slot though?
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Approx 6 600 miles is this the nearest maintenance facility available to carry out the work. Rather an expensive exercise.
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Originally Posted by Wycombe
(Post 10352904)
Presumably a 5am departure from LL would mean use of a night slot though?
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Originally Posted by Westlakejawa
(Post 10352929)
Approx 6 600 miles is this the nearest maintenance facility available to carry out the work. Rather an expensive exercise.
The aircraft doesn't always position from/to the UK, it will sometimes operate the LHR-SIN schedule and then fly on to Manila for the check, with the A380 coming off the previous check operating the return SIN-LHR. Of course that only works when two consecutive checks are scheduled. |
Why not leave after the night restriction period? Is there an issue at the MNL end? |
Yes, there is a very specific time window that the A380 can arrive into MNL. Usually this isn’t an issue when they swap A380s in SIN but as DaveReidUK alluded to, there isn’t one to swap with at the moment. champ |
Night flights at heathrow are restricted. Cargo flights unless carrying livestock and maintenance flights are banned until 06:01 local time.
This will explain why no slot is available from LHR. Slots at 06.01 to 07.00 are quite heavily utilised with departures already. |
Originally Posted by southern duel
(Post 10353103)
Night flights at heathrow are restricted. Cargo flights unless carrying livestock and maintenance flights are banned until 06:01 local time.
This will explain why no slot is available from LHR. Slots at 06.01 to 07.00 are quite heavily utilised with departures already. Night flights at heathrow are restricted. Cargo flights unless carrying livestock and maintenance flights are banned until 06:01 local time. This will explain why no slot is available from LHR. Slots at 06.01 to 07.00 are quite heavily utilised with departures already. |
Due to MNL's very strict A380 restrictions, it is not unusual for BA's A380s to fly SIN-CRK, and then position CRK-MNL after a few hours waiting in CRK.
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