Originally Posted by
remdk
Herostratus please remember that QR are constantly adjusting flight times to suit weather conditions, routing etc. There appears to go panic in the timetable schedulers in March and October because of the Summer/winter time change overs. This happens every year.
They usually do a good job but these two months are their 'Silly season'!
It wasn't the schedule change that was the issue, more that the change of planes led to a three hour flight length difference between the outward and return legs. I though perhaps some of the more daring A340 pilots went for a below the radar dash across KSA while the nervous nellie A330 pilots took the long way round which would account for the flight length difference. But it seems to be just a time calculation error.
Originally Posted by
msm2000uk
On the flip side, there is still plenty of time for QR to change the aircraft type again!
M
One can hope!