Originally Posted by
corporate-wage-slave
ZO - so that is Operational, which can mean all sorts of things.
It left T5 gate C64 at 17:04, against a scheduled time of 11:50 hrs. This is an A380 so my guess is that is some sort of knock on from the lightning strike before the HKG sectors, see other thread, I suspect they are short on capacity here.
From looking at FR24, G-XLEE arrived from Washington at 06:25 yesterday morning before turning around and heading back again.
By pure chance, after noticing the flight from AUH arriving very late, I started looking at other BA delays (bored in the airport!) and saw that the 216 was a creeping delay. First due to go at 12:50, then 13:30.... and onwards.
Upon departure, I spotted at least a couple of A380’s parked in the maintenance area.