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Drastic increase in capacity to MAN ?.

Well there was a KL 744 in here yesterday anyway. What's all that about then ?.

There were quite a few delays on KL at MAN yesterday; the other half only just made the conection to acc in ams....but no 744!

Meybe there were so many people stranded due to cancellations/delays that they sent one 744 to pick everyone up? (Was it an all-pax?)

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Originally Posted by PJK

(Was it an all-pax?)

It would appear it was PH-BFL operating KL691, and it called in as it had no water for the toilets apparently. :D

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Originally Posted by MAN Flyer

It would appear it was PH-BFL operating KL691, and it called in as it had no water for the toilets apparently. :D

I was on a BA redeye NAS-LHR once, where the toilets broke down. They could have landed somewhere first airport in the UK, but decided to fly on to LHR. Instead of waking everybody up for breakfast (when people tend to go to the lavatory's), they decided to make no announcements until 15 minutes before touchdown. Officially it was an emergency-landing. I have never been at a gate at LHR so fast :D
After that flight we were given a 7.50 GPB Heathrow voucher (WOW!) for the missed breakfast.

EDIT: Strange events-timeline...
http://www.flightstats.com/go/Flight...-10-25&x=7&y=8

They stopped in MAN to add water for the toilets?

Every now and then the toilets on DL's 767 TATL flights run out of water, but we just keep on going! :D

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Originally Posted by MAN Flyer

It would appear it was PH-BFL operating KL691, and it called in as it had no water for the toilets apparently. :D

Exactly the opposite: they hadn't emptied the toilets at AMS and the captain realized that nobody would have been able to use them for the duration of the flight. It cost them about one hour delay, in addition to anything else:

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From Manchester Evening News
PASSENGER jet had an unscheduled stop at Manchester Airport – because the toilets had not been emptied. The KLM Royal Dutch Airlines jumbo was heading from Amsterdam to Toronto when the cabin crew told the captain there was a problem. It is thought ground staff at Amsterdam’s Schiphol airport had forgotten to empty the plane’s toilets before take-off. That meant more than 300 passengers would not have been able to use the loos as the Boeing 747 made the seven-hour trip across the Atlantic on its way to Canada.
KL691 lifted off again from Manchester 40 minutes later, after engineers corrected the problem. A spokeswoman for KLM said an error was spotted with the plane’s toilet water supply after it took off from Amsterdam on Wednesday. She said: “The captain decided to divert to Manchester and get it fixed before he headed over the Atlantic. “He decided to do this for passenger comfort. The problem was fixed and then the aircraft carried on as normal.”
The KLM jumbo, a rare sight at Manchester, was seen landing just before 4pm and took off again just after 4.30pm. It is thought the captain wanted toilet facilities and water. The plane is said to have 14 toilets, which drain into four tanks. Each tank carries more than 65 gallons of waste. Engineers would have had to replace the tanks before the jet took off again. It is believed the toilets on this type of aircraft stop working when the tanks are full. Planes get diverted for all sorts of reasons, but diversions caused by a full toilet tank are understood to be very rare.

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Originally Posted by MAN Flyer

Well there was a KL 744 in here yesterday anyway. What's all that about then ?.

Boy, you really got my hopes up w/ the thread title...

so this proves KLM 747 are full of %^$£