Fuel stop on a cross-country flight? How rare is this?
Jan 8, 2017, 11:32 pm
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Jan 9, 2017, 7:32 am
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Dec 96: booked CVG-PDX-SEA (don't remember why 
) ... GA announced that, due to full pax load and headwinds, we would be making a technical stop in SLC to refuel ... I called to verify availability on the SLC-SEA flight, then asked the GA if -- presuming we pulled into a gate and didn't refuel on the ramp -- there was any way the crew would let me off to make the connection ... captain said ok, GA went ahead and booked it, and I got home about when I would have had the flight operated normally
) ... GA announced that, due to full pax load and headwinds, we would be making a technical stop in SLC to refuel ... I called to verify availability on the SLC-SEA flight, then asked the GA if -- presuming we pulled into a gate and didn't refuel on the ramp -- there was any way the crew would let me off to make the connection ... captain said ok, GA went ahead and booked it, and I got home about when I would have had the flight operated normally
Jan 9, 2017, 8:49 am
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Feel free not believe me, I suppose, for whatever reason.
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/20036077-post5.html More falsehoods, I guess.
Jan 9, 2017, 8:55 am
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When did SFO-PIT become westbound?
Feel free not believe me, I suppose, for whatever reason.
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/20036077-post5.html
Feel free not believe me, I suppose, for whatever reason.
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/20036077-post5.html
a middle-of-the-night stop in Kansas City on the SFO-PIT redeye.
fwiw, the plane had plenty of fuel to get to SFO. But it needs to have fuel to get to SFO, then to some number of diversion airports that don't have weather issues, plus xx minutes of circling, etc.
fwiw, the plane had plenty of fuel to get to SFO. But it needs to have fuel to get to SFO, then to some number of diversion airports that don't have weather issues, plus xx minutes of circling, etc.
Jan 9, 2017, 8:56 am
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Jan 9, 2017, 9:23 am
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You do, of course, realize that the fuel tanks are large enough for 99%+ of all ops for the aircraft. For the few times a year with irregular wind speeds, the costs just aren't justified. I had a nearly 6 hour airtime MIA/SLC a couple days ago, and one flight even exceeded 6 and 1/2 hours over the past week.
Jan 9, 2017, 11:23 am
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You do, of course, realize that the fuel tanks are large enough for 99%+ of all ops for the aircraft. For the few times a year with irregular wind speeds, the costs just aren't justified. I had a nearly 6 hour airtime MIA/SLC a couple days ago, and one flight even exceeded 6 and 1/2 hours over the past week.
Jan 9, 2017, 5:37 pm
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To me the biggest surprise is that it could make it as far as Fresno but not SFO, since than is basically 96-97% of the way to SFO.
I wonder what would happen in these scenarios if Fresno happened to be your final destination and you demanded to get off in Fresno. I presume they would now allow you but then they cannot keep you prisoner?
I wonder what would happen in these scenarios if Fresno happened to be your final destination and you demanded to get off in Fresno. I presume they would now allow you but then they cannot keep you prisoner?
Jan 9, 2017, 6:10 pm
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"requested" might succeed, but I certainly wouldn't have high expectations of being allowed to do so (and of course absolutely none with "demanded")