Originally Posted by
The Ginge
My understanding of the reasons for having both GE and RR 777's at Gatwick is that the RR 777 have bunks for crew rest, so are needed for the longer routes, the GE don't, so cant be used for routes such as Mauritius and Bangkok.
Which of course is the point I'm trying to make. They have the flexibility on the shorter routes usually covered by the GE frames as they can be covered by both frames, but not the longer routes only covered by the RR frames. If one of those BKK or MRU flights goes tech for example, then it has to be potentially delayed overnight until another RR 777 is available and even lead to deploying a LHR based RR frame to cover it, even though a GE frame is available, it can't be used because of the lack of crew bunks.