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Aug 3, 2024 | 12:11 pm

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HarryKUK

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Originally Posted by Pilot37

The list I provide a few weeks was just a snapshot in time, things happen with the fleet all the time, but here is the latest state of play for 3rd August because you asked nicely

G-XLEA - In Service (off to SIN tonight)
G-XLEB - In Service (On its way to MIA today)
G-XLEC - Undergoing maintenance at LHR
G-XLED - In Service (currently in JNB, coming back tonight)
G-XLEE - In Service (Just back from LAX and off to SFO on the 4th)
G-XLEF - In Service (On its way to LAX today)
G-XLEG - In Service (On its way to DFW today)
G-XLEH - In Service (Off to JNB tonight)
G-XLEI - In Service (On its way to SFO today)
G-XLEJ - In Manila undergoing maintenance
G-XLEK - In Service (In SIN, coming back tonight)
G-XLEL - In Service (Off to IAD tonight)

Today's BA213 to Boston has been cancelled, but G-XLEL had been assigned to that route and is now switching to IAD, so I am guessing there are not enough pilots to staff all 10 planes today, so BOS has taken the hit and that has been confirmed on the Cancellations thread!
G-XLED was the SIN problem child from 1st August and went back into service on the 2nd.

Pilot37

Thanks for this!

I flew out on the A380 yesterday to SIN and had a lovely flight over. Slept like a baby, even in economy, on the upper deck.

We are flying back from HKG after a few weeks in Bali, Vietnam and Thailand and I noticed today’s flight has been cancelled (yesterday from LHR). This isn’t an A380 issue but purely out of interest I’m wondering how long it takes to recover from a long haul cancellation like this especially since we’ve had SIN, HND and HKG all within days of each other. I know the logic behind cancelling the USA flights as they can easily reschedule but with such a low number of flights to Asia, cancelling three Asia flights in less than a week must have more of an impact?

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