Originally Posted by
Globaliser
He posted at 1450Z and referred to 30 minutes ago, ie about 1420Z. That would have been 2220L in Hong Kong. So perhaps he saw the aircraft operating tonight's BA28 being towed to the gate? That departed on schedule at 2345L, so having about 1½ hours on stand before departure would be plausible.
I guess it was the B777-300 since today's BA26 is delayed until 0955 tomorrow when XLEF will make a daytime flight back to LHR. I was trying to think what airline had 380s and could be confused with BA. China Southern has a sort of dark blue lower half but the tail would not be anything near!