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Feb 14, 2020, 1:27 pm

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ahmetdouas

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Originally Posted by BAeuro

Pure speculation but I think it’s slot sitting.

As one of the daily HKG flights has been cancelled up until late March they need to use the arrival slot at 4:45am. As pre 6am slots are some of the most precious, they don’t want to lose it so are using it on ATH in the short term.

It seems that it goes back to an 8:00 departure from later in March.

would be interesting to see the flight loads on such a flight that’s literally the worst time possible unless they go for like 50 GBP a seat !

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