Mutt,
Note this is T/O & Lndng wt only. It is quite rare to operate right up to limits for T/O & Lndng. With a large fleet you can schedule 747s to operate on less limiting routes where such limits never apply, so the actual cost of having a winglet missing is negligible.

Who notices one winglet is missing? Who will inspect both, who will see from the cabin if one is blanked off with tape? If it's presence bears absolutely no importance to the servicability of the aeroplane, and Airbus are short of spares or the aeroplane has no downtime scheduled, does anybody care apart from photographers in !!!!!!!!!!!!!!?

Not forgetting the drivers who taxy into other a/c of course.:sad:

Does the performance reduction apply to the MTOW or to the TOPL?

Guys guys guys,...... calm down, this is a commercial,........

THINK we are barking up the wrong tree here. My understanding is that there are a number of AIrbus that BA inherited (think from Caledondian) which were to a different spec, and without winglets.
Nothing to do with CDL (although that dow say they can be removed)


Frank

Yep that's right. The 'old' A320's from BCal had no 'end plates.' However UPA (as in the picture) is an A319 and should have.