stylo777 From Turkey, joined Feb 2006, 2870 posts, RR: 12 Posted (1 year 3 months 1 week 4 days 14 hours ago) and read 5605 times:
I was looking at the rotations of the A333 fleet of SWISS and remarked some intra-european flights, especially to DUS, LHR and BRU. are these flights for the 330-crews and to keep the minimum amount of takeoff/landings at the requiered level? or is there another reason behind?
ikramerica From United States of America, joined May 2005, 21029 posts, RR: 60 Reply 2, posted (1 year 3 months 1 week 3 days 21 hours ago) and read 4321 times:
Back in the day, the MD11 flew ZRH-GVA-ZRH for the same reason.
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nickofatlanta From Australia, joined May 2000, 1457 posts, RR: 0 Reply 3, posted (1 year 3 months 1 week 3 days 20 hours ago) and read 4292 times:
Back in the days, SR (and possibly LX too) used to schedule an MD11 on one of their morning ZRH-LHR flights that connected from Asia/Africa. KL had until even more recently a 763/A330 flight AMS-LHR for the same purpose.
runway23 From US Minor Outlying Islands, joined Jan 2005, 2038 posts, RR: 39 Reply 4, posted (1 year 3 months 1 week 3 days 20 hours ago) and read 4166 times:
Quoting nickofatlanta (Reply 3): Back in the days, SR (and possibly LX too) used to schedule an MD11 on one of their morning ZRH-LHR flights that connected from Asia/Africa.
SR then LX operated A332s on LX316 for a couple of years before downgauging to A321s.
flyingfool From Netherlands, joined May 2005, 415 posts, RR: 0 Reply 6, posted (1 year 3 months 1 week 3 days 19 hours ago) and read 3042 times:
Quoting nickofatlanta (Reply 3): Back in the days, SR (and possibly LX too) used to schedule an MD11 on one of their morning ZRH-LHR flights that connected from Asia/Africa.
If I remember correct, SR also had daily widebody to MUC and FRA...
richiemo From United States of America, joined Jul 2008, 195 posts, RR: 0 Reply 7, posted (1 year 3 months 1 week 3 days 18 hours ago) and read 2272 times:
Wish we had more wide-body opportunities flying city to city here in the US, aside from 767s, which I don't consider a widebody in the A330/747/777 sense (no offense 767s). Delta uses occasional 777/A330 LAX-ATL or ATL/JFK. And United an occasional 777 IAH-EWR or ORD-SFO-DEN. US Airways used A330 PHL-CLT for a brief time. But wish it was more. Oh well, such is the economics of air travel. The mighties need to be used abroad.
qm001 From Portugal, joined Mar 2004, 266 posts, RR: 0 Reply 11, posted (1 year 3 months 1 week 3 days 15 hours ago) and read 1260 times:
I sure would like having them on the DME runs! Those flights are always packed to the gills, and personally on the red eyes, I would love to have the flatbed seats!
I wish there was still a flying boat service on the African Lakes!
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