johnny5a

Due to the fire at the Tema oil refinery outside Accra and the shortage of aviation fuel.

BA flights are temporary stopping at ALG, adding about 2hrs to the journey.

I heard this is routing is for a few days.

johnny5a

Change of plan for tonights flight, we're going on a hop over to LOS.

Timings are:

Depart ACC: 23:45
Arrive LOS: 01:45
Depart LOS: 02:35
Arrive LHR: 08:15

Nightmare if you want something to eat?! Not sure what time they're gonna serve food.

B747-437B

Shoulda flown with the "competition".

At least then your stop would be in Dusseldorf rather than Lagos.

johnny5a

Not looking great, sat on the ground here, should have taken off at 23:45 but the plane was too heavy to land at Lagos so some cargo has benn off loaded, engines not started yet. I'm getting the muchies after all champoo.

Sorry B747-437B but I don' get enough miles with you to go to LAX in June

stuart101

hope this is sorted by Wednesday night for my ACC-LHR!

johnny5a

bad news stuart101

KIA stops the supply of Aviation Turbine Kerosene Fuel till Mid February

ukgooner

How comes they have enough Gas to get to Germany?

tom tulpe

Maybe that's what the article referenced above means by "these [sic] who have their own special arrangements are supposed to stick to them."

stuart101

looks like i might be lucky. Last nights flight went direct ACC-LHR. Hope this keeps up for my flight home as i need to be back in London early on Thursday.

Jumbodriver

Its either LOS or ACC short on fuel! They seem to alternate.

Not been to LOS for a while (ahhh seniority..) but last time we were tankering fuel ex LHR to max landing weight to avoid shortages for the return sector. Although it did mean i missed the window for getting Cotonou in my log book (I suspect its not high on BAs new route list). The fact that the 777 is doing Accra at the moment will help the situation.

B747-437B

Better advance operational planning perhaps? BA flight planners work in a building in London and make decisions based upon NOTAMs. Other airlines have people on the ground who actually ask questions and make decisions based on the answers. In Africa, NOTAMs rarely tell the full story!

johnny5a

B747-437B I maybe wrong but correct me please.

GIA use 757's - range is approx. 3900 miles

DUS to ACC = 3095 miles approx.

So how do you have enough to get back?

B747-437B

Just curious (I have no experience flight planning for the 747 despite my username - I deal more with the 757/767 size) but is MLW really the restricting factor on the LON-LOS run? I would think that you might be able to reduce burn on the return leg by dropping revenue cargo and thus reducing payload sufficiently enough to reduce burn to a point where tankered fuel would be sufficient to meet MINTO fuel requirements. I've been able to do that on LON-ACC vv in the past on the 767, which is why I'm confused why the BA 777 is struggling with tech stops -- KLM have been able to tanker just fine to/from AMS on most days. I guess its up to commercial priorities, but I have found that the commercial benefits of operating to schedule sans tech stop far outweight the drawbacks of delayed cargo, especially if cargo is aware in advance and avoids manifesting perishables on the day.

B747-437B

YGPM.