Originally Posted by
wonderfultravels
Hello,
Happy New Year to all of you. A relative is planning to fly BOM DEL BOM in the next week or so (end January 2024). Given the numerous flight delays due to the fog and whatever else may be the cause, he is wondering if a particular aircraft type (Air India) is better suited to land in fog conditions, than another. The broad options are:
AIRBUS A321
AIRBUS A319
Airbus A320 NEO
Boeing 787-8
BOEING 777-300ER
How would you rank these based on their ability to land in foggy conditions?
and
How would you rank these based on their in seat comfort (economy) if you had to be waiting in your seat for an hour or more due to a delay in take off
Thank you!
You can't plan for the fog. Currently, DEL has only one side of one runway supporting CAT IIIB. Even if they get 2 runways operational, there is no guarantee you plane is equipped with CAT IIIB AND the pilots are CAT IIIB trained. AI just got fined for that.
So book something during the middle of the day if possible and hope that earlier cascading effects of earlier delays and operational issues don't harm your flight too much.
I feel the wide-bodies would be more comfortable than the narrow-bodies because they would have the appearance of more space and the 77W would have marginally better seat width and pitch.