BA to lease 9 Qatar A320s + crews during strike
Jul 21, 2017, 2:50 am
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Jul 21, 2017, 7:23 am
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This time he parked up pretty soon after exiting the runway nowhere near the stand and shut down and then waiting for the tug took about 20 minutes .. [ Checking it says landed at 16:11, but BA.com has arrival as 16:35 which would sound about right ]
Qatar pilots generally ( not just this specific experience ) are a lot less informative on the PA announcements than BA ones so all just speculation I guess :P
Small inconveniences anyway .. not a huge big deal, just thought it a bit curious.
Jul 21, 2017, 1:18 pm
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Anyone actually seen of these aircraft yet?!
3 trips out of A Gates during the strike so far and not a sign of any of them. Are they in hiding?!
(Waits whilst someone does the maths based on 9 planes x average turnaround time x number of hours Heathrow is open x % of short-hauls which would as a statistical average use A gates or the western side of B .....)
3 trips out of A Gates during the strike so far and not a sign of any of them. Are they in hiding?!
(Waits whilst someone does the maths based on 9 planes x average turnaround time x number of hours Heathrow is open x % of short-hauls which would as a statistical average use A gates or the western side of B .....)
Jul 21, 2017, 1:21 pm
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Anyone actually seen of these aircraft yet?!
3 trips out of A Gates during the strike so far and not a sign of any of them. Are they in hiding?!
(Waits whilst someone does the maths based on 9 planes x average turnaround time x number of hours Heathrow is open x % of short-hauls which would as a statistical average use A gates or the western side of B .....)
3 trips out of A Gates during the strike so far and not a sign of any of them. Are they in hiding?!
(Waits whilst someone does the maths based on 9 planes x average turnaround time x number of hours Heathrow is open x % of short-hauls which would as a statistical average use A gates or the western side of B .....)
Jul 21, 2017, 1:40 pm
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Anyone actually seen of these aircraft yet?!
3 trips out of A Gates during the strike so far and not a sign of any of them. Are they in hiding?!
(Waits whilst someone does the maths based on 9 planes x average turnaround time x number of hours Heathrow is open x % of short-hauls which would as a statistical average use A gates or the western side of B .....)
3 trips out of A Gates during the strike so far and not a sign of any of them. Are they in hiding?!
(Waits whilst someone does the maths based on 9 planes x average turnaround time x number of hours Heathrow is open x % of short-hauls which would as a statistical average use A gates or the western side of B .....)
Jul 21, 2017, 1:48 pm
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Jul 21, 2017, 1:50 pm
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Anyone actually seen of these aircraft yet?!
3 trips out of A Gates during the strike so far and not a sign of any of them. Are they in hiding?!
(Waits whilst someone does the maths based on 9 planes x average turnaround time x number of hours Heathrow is open x % of short-hauls which would as a statistical average use A gates or the western side of B .....)
3 trips out of A Gates during the strike so far and not a sign of any of them. Are they in hiding?!
(Waits whilst someone does the maths based on 9 planes x average turnaround time x number of hours Heathrow is open x % of short-hauls which would as a statistical average use A gates or the western side of B .....)
Jul 21, 2017, 2:45 pm
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Do they not trust the Qatar pilots to park ?? .. Flew back on the BA883 from Kiev today .. pleasant flight on the purple airbus ... but when we arrived at Heathrow we stopped on the taxiway at the North End of the C gates .. then shut everything down and the captain announced we were waiting for a tug to come and tow us on to stand - eventually one showed up and pulled us along the far side of the C gates to a remote stand opposite them on the South End ( by the old fuel tanks ) .. Looked like a normal looking stand - not sure why self parking wasn't an option and we had to get the valet (tug!)
That and the usual messing around with buses took some of the good out of an otherwise pleasant flight ... more curious though as to why this was the case - I can only recall something like this occasionally before at some US Airport ( maybe the old terminal in LAX?) where it was very tight and they towed the aircraft the last bit of the way onto the gate .. never seen it at LHR before
That and the usual messing around with buses took some of the good out of an otherwise pleasant flight ... more curious though as to why this was the case - I can only recall something like this occasionally before at some US Airport ( maybe the old terminal in LAX?) where it was very tight and they towed the aircraft the last bit of the way onto the gate .. never seen it at LHR before
Jul 21, 2017, 2:46 pm
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Anyone actually seen of these aircraft yet?!
3 trips out of A Gates during the strike so far and not a sign of any of them. Are they in hiding?!
(Waits whilst someone does the maths based on 9 planes x average turnaround time x number of hours Heathrow is open x % of short-hauls which would as a statistical average use A gates or the western side of B .....)
3 trips out of A Gates during the strike so far and not a sign of any of them. Are they in hiding?!
(Waits whilst someone does the maths based on 9 planes x average turnaround time x number of hours Heathrow is open x % of short-hauls which would as a statistical average use A gates or the western side of B .....)
Jul 21, 2017, 3:25 pm
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Anyone actually seen of these aircraft yet?!
3 trips out of A Gates during the strike so far and not a sign of any of them. Are they in hiding?!
(Waits whilst someone does the maths based on 9 planes x average turnaround time x number of hours Heathrow is open x % of short-hauls which would as a statistical average use A gates or the western side of B .....)
3 trips out of A Gates during the strike so far and not a sign of any of them. Are they in hiding?!
(Waits whilst someone does the maths based on 9 planes x average turnaround time x number of hours Heathrow is open x % of short-hauls which would as a statistical average use A gates or the western side of B .....)
Jul 21, 2017, 4:37 pm
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Yep, two at the SE corner of T5A on Tuesday.
If each aircraft is only doing two rotations a day (from the earlier list posted), say an hour a turnaround, and nine aircraft split among two terminals (effectively four if you include the B/C satellites) and it's not likely you'll see a huge amount of them...
If each aircraft is only doing two rotations a day (from the earlier list posted), say an hour a turnaround, and nine aircraft split among two terminals (effectively four if you include the B/C satellites) and it's not likely you'll see a huge amount of them...
Jul 21, 2017, 4:46 pm
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