Originally Posted by
EuropeToAsia
Thanks, that answers my question why apparently the inbound arrives in the early morning only to sit there for almost 19 hours before departing again after midnight the next day. If cargo is the key driver, spending those hours loading lucrative freight is probably worth it.
I don't think that it takes 19 hours to load an aircraft-ful of cargo! IIRC from previous threads on this, the reason the aircraft is on the ground there for 19 hours from early morning to late evening is so that the same crew can immediately operate the aircraft back to London after taking minimum rest during the day, so that BA does not have to overnight either aircraft or crew there. But as we have crew on this thread who actually do this route, it would be good to know whether that reason is accurate.