Originally Posted by
corporate-wage-slave
The reason for this is a shortage of flight crew. This was an A350 too...
G-XWBB has for the last week just done the daily BA 162/163 overnight rotation to TLV, leaving LHR at 21:10 and returning at 09:45. If BA are short of A350 pilots why isn't this aircraft being sent for a daily training flight to MAD in that 12 hour gap in the schedule?