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Iberia A340 In Frankfurt  
User currently offline764 From United States of America, joined Jul 2001, 608 posts, RR: 0
Posted (5 years 11 months 1 week 6 days 5 hours ago) and read 2163 times:

Yesterday (June 10th), I was walking in the woods near Frankfurt and was stunned to see an Iberia A340 approcaching the aiport. I was sure it must have been an illusion until I checked the CRS later and sure enough, Iberia flew an A340 from MAD to FRA yesterday. Does anybody know why?

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User currently offlineNA From Germany, joined Dec 1999, 9600 posts, RR: 10
Reply 1, posted (5 years 11 months 1 week 6 days 5 hours ago) and read 2144 times:

According to FRAs flightplan an IB A340 comes every sunday after 11 in the morning. Was it between 11 and 12? Then it was the scheduled flight.

User currently offlineAlitaliaMD11 From Spain, joined Dec 2003, 4068 posts, RR: 15
Reply 2, posted (5 years 11 months 1 week 6 days 5 hours ago) and read 2122 times:

For a while now Iberia has been operating an A340-300, and even an A340-600 on some occasions, on Sundays between MAD and FRA. The flight number is IB3500/IB3507. However up till now I was under the impression the A340 operated the flight on Saturdays but I guess it is Sunday actually.


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User currently offline764 From United States of America, joined Jul 2001, 608 posts, RR: 0
Reply 3, posted (5 years 11 months 1 week 6 days 4 hours ago) and read 2054 times:

Shows what I know .... Thanks!

User currently offlineThorben From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR:
Reply 4, posted (5 years 11 months 1 week 6 days 4 hours ago) and read 1956 times:

Quoting 764 (Thread starter):
Does anybody know why?

Was discussed in another thread recently, according to GatoVolador it is because of "cargo commitments". A340s, especially the -600 can carry cargo that might be too big or heavy for A32X or other narrow-bodies that IB normally uses to FRA.
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