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Old Nov 5, 2004 | 10:05 pm
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kv99
 
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Originally Posted by ordskier
kv99


You may want to consider that the largest electronics subcomponent trade show in the world is happening that week in munich. It only happens every two years and there is some serious attendance going on. I am going over on Monday and i just cleared 2 nights ago but I am taking the long way around through lhr.
That would be a reasonable explanation, but the loads look even higher the following week!!

One thing that always strikes me as odd is that they use the 747 for Flt. 916 at 5:25p and the 777 for Flt. 932 at 9:45 pm. It would seem that they should use the larger plane on the later flight: most US business people can get an entire workday in before heading to the airport; more importantly, they would be able to easily accomodate all the misconnects on the late flight if it were a larger plane-- I've been told by some of my UA non-reving friends that the late flights to London and Frankfurt are tough for them to s/b on for this reason.
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