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Old Mar 17, 2023 | 12:16 pm
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Originally Posted by goback
I wonder if this was the aircraft that was supposed to be on BA287 on Tuesday 14th March. When boarding the return BA286 that was much delayed the captain mentioned that there was a plane substitution due to an engine starter problem as the cause of the lengthy, almost 4 hour delay (we got XLEA, iirc).
No, today’s poorly A380 is XLEC
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