Are BA long-haul scheds seldom changed?
Jun 30, 2006 | 11:44 am
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Are BA long-haul scheds seldom changed?
While MRU remains a cheap place for OWE's, it's an unfriendly schedule - 4 flights a week, and an early departure that almost certainly puts a RON into the schedule. Does BA leave their long-haul schedules unchanged for years on end, or do they mess with them regularly for better or worse?
Jun 30, 2006 | 12:37 pm
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BA is severely constrained by slots/gates at LHR, so the schedule doesn't change except for good reason. Perhaps when T5 opens there will be a major rework of the schedule (but I doubt it -- overall it is pretty good). As there are no free slots at LHR, taking MRU to daily means some other city gives up the slots ... so the issue is profitability driving frequency. Somehow I doubt MRU will ever get more frequent service or better times (though the DST change might move the times for winter).
BA probably has had the least change in its schedule over the past decade of any airline; hardly a surprise given the constraints.
BA probably has had the least change in its schedule over the past decade of any airline; hardly a surprise given the constraints.
Jun 30, 2006 | 7:53 pm
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But BA does some minor adjustments that can turn a 23+ hour transit into a > 24 hour stopover. The best example was when the daytime DXB flight was moved 20 minutes and that meant the AA flight from LAX arrived 10 min before that flight's departure.
Jul 1, 2006 | 1:33 am
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Originally Posted by headinclouds
...The best example was when the daytime DXB flight was moved 20 minutes and that meant the AA flight from LAX arrived 10 min before that flight's departure.
Jul 1, 2006 | 7:01 am
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Originally Posted by headinclouds
But BA does some minor adjustments that can turn a 23+ hour transit into a > 24 hour stopover. The best example was when the daytime DXB flight was moved 20 minutes and that meant the AA flight from LAX arrived 10 min before that flight's departure.
Jul 1, 2006 | 7:48 am
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Originally Posted by JohnAx
I don't understand the arithmetic. Seems like a 20 minute change ending up with a 10 minute connection must have started with a 30 minute connection.
AA arr from LAX @ 12:00. BA dep LHR @ 11:50 - nice long 23:50 connection.
BA shift the dep by 20 mins to 12:10
AA arr from LAX @ 12:00. BA dep LHR @ 12:10 - too short 0:10 connection, or an 'illegally' long 24:10 one.
Jul 1, 2006 | 8:00 pm
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In the 8 years that I have been flying with BA, I have not seen major changes on their schedules. Lately have only been reduction of flights to reduce extra capacity, and expansion to India as the Indian market has increased so much.
Jul 3, 2006 | 4:37 am
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More tweaks than wholesale change. Perhaps the only destinations i can think of that have seen anything more significant are the Indian routes where the additional capacity has seen some routes have 3-4 hour shifts.
Otherwise, static from season to season apart from the usual DST shifts.
Otherwise, static from season to season apart from the usual DST shifts.