Originally Posted by
scottishpoet
at the time of night were there no alternative aircraft they could have used to get the muc away on time? Or was it the crew coming in from aberdeen that were also going to muc?
It was a 319 and they seem reluctant to do late swaps to 320, probably due to the crew reason you mention (and possibly because of the night stopped crew in MUC too, if that applied). The 319 fleet is now quite small, so all in all it's a logistic headache.