Aircraft tracking
Jan 12, 2018, 9:08 am
#17
Join Date: May 2016
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However you’d be surprised how often we need to use ETOPS to/from India, for example - there’s quite a big gap of usable airfields over Iran/Afghanistan/Pakistan for political or safety reasons.
Cairo would have been the obvious choice, but that’s not operated by the 787 at the moment.
Most other destinations to the East are on the -9. Could possibly get away with it to Seoul, but the level cap (crew bunks required) would be more punitive in terms of fuel burn on a longer sector.
Jan 12, 2018, 9:13 am
#18
Join Date: Jan 2017
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That was my first thought as well
However you’d be surprised how often we need to use ETOPS to/from India, for example - there’s quite a big gap of usable airfields over Iran/Afghanistan/Pakistan for political or safety reasons.
Cairo would have been the obvious choice, but that’s not operated by the 787 at the moment.
Most other destinations to the East are on the -9. Could possibly get away with it to Seoul, but the level cap (crew bunks required) would be more punitive in terms of fuel burn on a longer sector.
Jan 12, 2018, 9:55 am
#19
Join Date: May 2016
Posts: 71
Our manual just states the limitation without any further explanation, so there could be a different reason that I’m unaware of.
Jan 12, 2018, 11:19 am
#20
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She has a next flight listed to YYC on 14 January, so it's possible that two days of downtime are being used to repair the defect.