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Mar 9, 2018, 5:42 pm
#2956
Join Date: Feb 2012
Programs: BA Executive Club Bronze
Posts: 155
It wouldn't be a legal trip to fly back to London 8h15mins later. You have to remember that the time the crew are on duty will mean that they finish the duty to OTP later than 0015L, and go back on duty before 0830L in the morning.
Mar 10, 2018, 1:19 am
#2958
Join Date: Sep 2014
Location: Cumbria
Programs: BAEC GGL/CCR, Hilton Diamond, Starbucks Gold
Posts: 4,510
Mar 10, 2018, 3:35 am
#2959
Join Date: Jan 2017
Programs: HH - Gold, BA - Blue
Posts: 188
You mean BA haven't classed it as a split shift?
Mar 10, 2018, 3:47 am
#2960
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Join Date: Jul 2002
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Posts: 19,095
I am not sure if our crew still do split duties?
Mar 10, 2018, 6:27 am
#2961
Join Date: Aug 2008
Posts: 2,065
Split duties are still in the scheme but they are massively inefficient, from a business point of view. You get two short sectors from a crew when you could get 6 sectors for the same two days at work. We still see the odd split duty but they are generally ad hoc to cover higher club loads. I think they are only used tactically
Mar 10, 2018, 6:31 am
#2962
Join Date: Dec 2016
Posts: 587
Yep, we definitely have them on MF but as aforementioned they’re not common at all.
Mar 10, 2018, 7:59 am
#2963
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Join Date: Jul 2013
Location: UK
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So if its not the same crew, then how are the crew on the 0815 OTP to LHR positioned to OTP? Just curious.
Mar 10, 2018, 8:16 am
#2964
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: 59K
Posts: 2,301
Crews swap in the middle of the day too, not just overnight. So the crew that arrive late on the aircraft that stays overnight go home in middle of next day. They swap with crew who have flown out from London who then go back on the following nights early morning flight .
Mar 12, 2018, 1:42 am
#2965
Join Date: Aug 2013
Location: SJC
Programs: BAEC Bronze, AS MVP Gold 75K, Hyatt Globalist
Posts: 488
Hi all.
Is it correct that on the 320 on the right hand side of the aircraft (so seats D, E and F) that additional oxygen masks- for use by infants- only exist from row 16 to 28?
Thanks
Is it correct that on the 320 on the right hand side of the aircraft (so seats D, E and F) that additional oxygen masks- for use by infants- only exist from row 16 to 28?
Thanks
Mar 13, 2018, 12:04 pm
#2966
Join Date: Jun 2013
Posts: 88
I am trying to find out why there has been no CE seat map for me to choose seats for our Dubrovnik to LGW flight on Friday 16th March. 2018?
Mar 13, 2018, 12:10 pm
#2967
Moderator: British Airways Executive Club
Join Date: Nov 2010
Location: TPA/ABZ
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Posts: 13,248
Mar 13, 2018, 12:12 pm
#2968
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Join Date: Apr 2012
Location: Leeds, UK
Programs: BA GGL/CCR, GfL, HH Diamond
Posts: 42,967
What happens when you click to show the seat map?
Mar 13, 2018, 12:28 pm
#2969
Join Date: Jun 2013
Posts: 88
In manage my booking the show seat map is greyed out so cant click on it trying to pay for 2 D/F just called BA and they said row 1 and 2 are blocked so I could have row 5. Said no. On the way out row 1 and 2 were opened up 72 hours before so we chose row1. No status so will have to wait. Thank you.
Mar 15, 2018, 9:51 am
#2970
Join Date: Aug 2008
Posts: 2,065
i cannot comment on what exact fit exists for other carriers but I suspect there is very little difference from one A320to the next. In a BA fit there are usually 7 oxymasks per row, and in some rows there are 8. Usually there is a stagger, so that the additional mask is located first on the one side then then next. Theses are not additional masks for infants, though they can fulfill this role. Their main usage is to allow cabin crew to “monkey swing” to their own seats in the case of a prolonged descent over high ground post decompression. They also cover failures or breakages when some scared passenger rips a mask from the ceiling in their panic.
Last edited by Waterhorse; Mar 18, 2018 at 4:35 am