Originally Posted by
Spongthrush
Darling daughter on BA209 MIA-LHR later today, it seems to have just suffered an a/c change from XLEL to XLED and copped a 4hr delay....but nothing obvious in Expertflyer to explain... has an A380 gone tech thus necessitating a swap around?
XLED has just closed gate at C55 at 18:11 but has a slot time of 18:40 for push back, at the moment, so effectively 4 hours late but 20 minutes are ATC related. Estimated take off 19:09. The reason for the delay looks to be shortage of frames, XLED was linked to the previous BA268, which was actually a few minutes early at 15:17, but it's not possible to turn an A380 around that quickly.