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Oct 13, 2012 | 9:09 pm

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madrooster

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Originally Posted by Platinum A332

I remember reading somewhere that if the LHR schedules are changed slightly (so that one flight departs late night out of Australia, and one flight departs mid morning from London) it would allow either DFW or the 2nd SYD-LAX flight to be upgraded to an A380 (with allowance for an aircraft to be spare or in maintenance).

Perhaps an all A380 service SYD-LAX alternating between 11xwk to 14xwk depending on the season and demand (and hence allowing for enough slack for maintenance).

Yes it's possible if they modify their LHR schedule. The 2 A380s in LHR sit there for 15 hours a day.

SYD-DFW-xBNE-SYD can't be upgraded currently to an A380 due to BNE not being a category 10 rated airport (required for regular A380 ops, irrops don't count as the PIC can make the discretion to land at a lower rated airport). If they wanted to change the DFW service to an A380 they would have to and could cut out BNE and make it SYD-DFW-SYD.

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