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Old Feb 3, 2009 | 11:33 am
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Originally Posted by FlyEK
With the loads as light as they are these days, it makes financial sense to downgrade/upgrade certain sectors to maximise profits/ minimise losses.

JFK loads are very light this month.
On the other hand, Australian routes are oversold every day. It would make sense to put more 380s on the AUS routes.

Yesterday BEY got upgraded to a 345. I'm sure those pax won't complain about that substitution.
Agree re JFK. I also heard that if JFK loads remain light they will switch the A380 to Australia routes - either MEL or BNE.

The BEY upgrade i believe was a late swap. The aircraft inbound from EK425 (PER) which was an A343 was supposed to operate EK953/954 to BEY but because EK425 was running late, they swapped the equipment to an A345 - A6-ERH.

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