Originally Posted by
SKT-DK
What I meant was that there will be less
unforeseen swaps due to having to cover elsewhere in the network, and thus 77Ws being sent to LHR instead of 380s. I.e. if the schedule is 380 now, and nothign unforeseen happens, it will stay that way - unless of course they change things around for the winter schedule for 2019/20 - which is something that can happen with any carrier, not just Thai.
as I understood they had for the winter schedule planned to have A380 on all daily flights for LHR (910/911), FRA (920/921), CDG (930/931), which are all leaving BKK just around midnight and returning day+1 in the morning. Later they realized that this was not possible in order to keep preventive maintenance schedule and swapped (in the schedule, not unforeseen at last minute) some of the 910 and 920 (and an occasional 930) back to 77w
Have not heard about longer downtime of some of the A380 with last minute swaps during last 2-3 months
correct me if I am wrong!