EK156 From United Arab Emirates, joined May 2005, 765 posts, RR: 3 Posted (1 year 7 months 6 days 10 hours ago) and read 6615 times:
Emirates announced today that will be sending another A380 on their LHR route making it 3 daily flights with the A380 now!! Seems Capacity is allowing this increase. Business is always full when I fly that route!
planesarecool From United Kingdom, joined Nov 2001, 4096 posts, RR: 12 Reply 3, posted (1 year 7 months 6 days 4 hours ago) and read 5654 times:
Its EK029/30 being upgraded. This surprises me given the lack of convenient connections and the poor timings for O/D passengers eastbound (0325 arrival at DXB). The DXB-LHR flight is slightly more favourable, but a lot of the feed in the morning bank will be picked up by EK001 which departs two hours earlier and connects perfectly with most of the Australia, New Zealand and African inbounds.
michaeljp From United States of America, joined Nov 2004, 179 posts, RR: 0 Reply 4, posted (1 year 7 months 6 days 3 hours ago) and read 5343 times:
The 29 I personally find a great flight as it's good timing to get things done as you don't leave DXB to early and are able to do things in London upon arrival.
Regarding upgrades it's usually full of full fare whereby if it's overbooked they get moved to F. Y class has pretty good loads on this flight also.
Hope that helps
hal9213 From Germany, joined May 2009, 302 posts, RR: 0 Reply 6, posted (1 year 7 months 5 days 6 hours ago) and read 3697 times:
Quoting mikey72 (Reply 1): Full with what though ? Full fare payers or bump-ups ?
Even if it were full of bump-ups, that would mean a lot of high-yield Y-pax, which -at a 50% Y-capacity increase- would not have bump-ups anymore.
Quoting planesarecool (Reply 3): This surprises me given the lack of convenient connections and the poor timings for O/D passengers eastbound (0325 arrival at DXB)
3:25 is the flight from which to connect to earlier flights of the morning departure bank. Its not that "poor", although it would be more perfect if it arrived an hour or 1.5h later.
planesarecool From United Kingdom, joined Nov 2001, 4096 posts, RR: 12 Reply 7, posted (1 year 7 months 5 days 6 hours ago) and read 3548 times:
Quoting hal9213 (Reply 7): 3:25 is the flight from which to connect to earlier flights of the morning departure bank. Its not that "poor", although it would be more perfect if it arrived an hour or 1.5h later.
EK004, arriving at 0700, connects with the morning bank. EK30 can be used, but the layover is around 4 hours +.
B747forever From United States of America, joined May 2007, 16598 posts, RR: 11 Reply 9, posted (1 year 7 months 5 days 4 hours ago) and read 3290 times:
Quoting boysteve (Reply 9): Of course the real question now is which rotation will become the 4th A380 into LHR and when?
I am sure that all the flights to LHR will be operated by the A380.
fcogafa From United Kingdom, joined May 2008, 648 posts, RR: 0 Reply 12, posted (1 year 7 months 4 days 6 hours ago) and read 2132 times:
There are still only 4 A380 stands in Terminal 3 so the availability does not necessarily work for all 5 flights to be A380s when you factor in the QFA and SIA requirements as there are often 2 UAE aircraft present at the same time. There was talk of 340 and 342 being upgraded to A380 stands but that seems to have gone quiet.
Bigger O&D than Paris and Amsterdam combined, only two runways .... big, high capacity planes definitely feature very highly in LHR's future. I recall that BAA think that, eventually, 1 in every 6 movements at LHR will be an A380.
fcogafa From United Kingdom, joined May 2008, 648 posts, RR: 0 Reply 15, posted (1 year 7 months 4 days 3 hours ago) and read 1796 times:
Quoting GCT64 (Reply 14): definitely feature very highly in LHR's future. I recall that BAA think that, eventually, 1 in every 6 movements at LHR will be an A380.
BAA are dreaming! As the LHR movements are around 1370 in summer that would mean 230ish A380 moves per day. There is no way the infrastructure could handle that many, there just isn't the space, stands or runway capacity as one A380 = 3 normal moves.
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