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Mar 18, 2023, 5:43 am

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Originally Posted by GlasgowBlue

I’m on BA0297 in just over a couple of weeks.... Average delay of 51 mins!... Meanwhile the AA flight from T3 to ORD (code share BA1544) which leaves 3 hours earlier, is on time 78% of the time.

That AA service is performed by a 787 on a tight turn. No maintenance, no tow, they barely shut the engines off.

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Originally Posted by Red L

I am on BA 55 to JNB... The captain implied that the 380s regularly need some sort of (often lengthy) maintenance after EVERY flight.

I wonder if Waterside in hindsight wishes it hadn't been so quick to scrap all the 744s. Older they may have been, but they answered the bell better.

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