Bill From Switzerland, joined Jun 1999, 69 posts, RR: 0 Posted (8 years 4 months 5 days 1 hour ago) and read 1901 times:
Can someone explain the news below ?!?! Nice is not on the Zurich-Atlanta route ?
78 passengers only !!!! That's a very bad load factor !
Zurich-Atlanta flight re-routed to Nice after fuel leak
NICE, France, Jan 19 (AFP) -
A US Delta Airlines plane with 78 passengers on board made an unscheduled stopover in Nice Wednesday after a fuel leak, airport officials said.
The Boeing 767 en route to Zurich, Switzerland to Atlanta, Georgia jettisoned part of its fuel off the nearby Mediterranean resort of Cannes before landing safely.
All passengers were to be put on a Nice-New York flight Thursday morning and then on to their final destination, airport management said.
Panamair From United States of America, joined Oct 2001, 4584 posts, RR: 26 Reply 1, posted (8 years 4 months 5 days 1 hour ago) and read 1840 times:
"78 passengers only !!!! That's a very bad load factor !"
Well, it is in the middle of winter and in the middle of the week. The period between mid-January and mid-February is probably THE slowest travel period of the year...Both AA and CO have reduced frequencies on their ZRH-NYC runs during this period as well....
LongbowPilot From United States of America, joined Jan 2005, 577 posts, RR: 4 Reply 3, posted (8 years 4 months 5 days 1 hour ago) and read 1803 times:
maybe they were leaking fuel, and needed to have it fixed. Longway to run out of gas right?
Big777jet From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 4, posted (8 years 4 months 5 days 1 hour ago) and read 1777 times:
I noticed the Skymiles news Delta is trying to get more people on the market between ATL and ZRH to get double mileages. My friend is going to fly in March. Maybe ATL-ZRH is not good market. I don't know why. I'm surprised that 78 pax Delta is hurting to expenses fuel burning on a long range!
Ual747 From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 5, posted (8 years 4 months 5 days 1 hour ago) and read 1756 times:
Strange. Wonder why they decided on NCE? It's way south of the great circle route. Even with a southerly route back to ATL, I don't think that they would stray that far south.
Smcmac32msn From United States of America, joined May 2004, 2211 posts, RR: 5 Reply 10, posted (8 years 4 months 4 days 22 hours ago) and read 1427 times:
The flight originated in ZRH, not ATL. They flew them ZRH-NCE-JFK.
Hey Obama, keep the change! I want my dollar back.
Flairport From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 11, posted (8 years 4 months 4 days 22 hours ago) and read 1360 times:
Ok...I get it...I read this:
The Boeing 767 en route to Zurich, Switzerland to Atlanta, Georgia
it said en route to Zurich, but it was obviously a typo. So, that plane is probably being ferried to ATL and the pax on the NCE-JFK flight were reaccomidated to ATL and beyond I guess.
Panamair From United States of America, joined Oct 2001, 4584 posts, RR: 26 Reply 12, posted (8 years 4 months 4 days 16 hours ago) and read 1084 times:
The incident happened on DL 67 from ZRH to ATL yesterday and was diverted to NCE. The pax. are being put on a regular NCE-JFK flight today (Thurs Jan 20) and then onward from there.
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