capitalflyer From United States of America, joined Nov 2010, 255 posts, RR: 0 Posted (1 year 4 months 1 week 20 hours ago) and read 11616 times:
For about the past 1-2 months most of the daily A380 flights by AF between CDG and IAD have been downgauged to a 777. Are there larger issues with demand on this route or is this just a seasonal adjustment?
tff From Portugal, joined May 2011, 62 posts, RR: 2 Reply 1, posted (1 year 4 months 1 week 19 hours ago) and read 11477 times:
The A388 is being deployed on days 4567 in the CDG-IAD route. This was the initial plan for the W11 operation. A revised version of such planning included deploying it on day 1 as well, but the B77W is now being used for that day, reverting to the initial plan.
capitalflyer From United States of America, joined Nov 2010, 255 posts, RR: 0 Reply 2, posted (1 year 4 months 1 week 19 hours ago) and read 11351 times:
Quoting tff (Reply 1): days 4567 in the CDG-IAD route
Seems like a lot more than that. In the weeks after the initial flight back in June, the flight (AFR028/AFR039) was a daily 388. Now since Jan 2, there have been only 4 times that the 388 was used, with the other 11 being 777 flights. And there doesn't seem to be any pattern to the 388 flights, with one each on a Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday, and Sunday.
This could also be a case of flight aware having the wrong equipment listed for a flight. But I haven't encountered that before.
Perhaps the best way to tell would be to wait until spring, a big travel time for tourists coming to DC.
tff From Portugal, joined May 2011, 62 posts, RR: 2 Reply 3, posted (1 year 4 months 1 week 18 hours ago) and read 11011 times:
Quoting capitalflyer (Reply 2): In the weeks after the initial flight back in June, the flight (AFR028/AFR039) was a daily 388.
At that point in time, for the peak of S11 season, the flight was daily indeed. IIRC, from September 6th it changed to 4 weekly A388 + 3 weekly B77W. With the start of W11 season, on October 30th, what was planned was what I mentioned in my earlier reply.
Quoting capitalflyer (Reply 2): Now since Jan 2, there have been only 4 times that the 388 was used, with the other 11 being 777 flights. And there doesn't seem to be any pattern to the 388 flights, with one each on a Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday, and Sunday.
You may be right. I didn't check which equipment has been operating the route, but only what is loaded on GDS for future flights.
capitalflyer From United States of America, joined Nov 2010, 255 posts, RR: 0 Reply 5, posted (1 year 4 months 1 week 18 hours ago) and read 10940 times:
jayspilot From United States of America, joined exactly 12 years ago today! , 290 posts, RR: 0 Reply 9, posted (1 year 4 months 1 week 9 hours ago) and read 6715 times:
flightaware is a great site but often shows the wrong equipment, if you haven't seen this your lucky.. I'd stick to the airlines internal schedule or a reservations system to see the correct equipment.
capitalflyer From United States of America, joined Nov 2010, 255 posts, RR: 0 Reply 10, posted (1 year 4 months 1 week 9 hours ago) and read 6338 times:
Double checked flight aware today by listening to LiveATC as AFR028 arrived. Just a heavy, not a super heavy.
Apart from IAD, the A388 is currently being deployed to JFK, JNB, DXB and YUL (all daily, except JNB which seems to be running 6 weekly for some weeks).
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