Semaex From Germany, joined Nov 2009, 769 posts, RR: 2 Posted (10 months 1 week 4 days 3 hours ago) and read 2105 times:
G'day folks,
I had the opportunity to visit the observer's deck at FRA today, around 1400L, which happens less often than I would like to.
To my surprise though, I seemed to have cought an interesting day, because of the following things I witnessed:
- 2x VN 772, which departed about 15 minutes after one another. So far I thought that only one VN 777 served FRA daily.
- 2x QF 744, one in the remote parking space of the future T3, as it always is, but also one which departed around 1430L, and I have no idea what it was doing in FRA! Charter? MX replace?
- both CX and CA with 744. A couple of months ago they were both 777. Is that a change for the summer schedule or permanent?
I'm sure there are quite logic explanations to all of my trivial sensations. Anyone willing to fill me in on the matters? I'd be glad to learn something new today!
Semaex
// You know you're an aviation enthusiast when you look at your neighbour's cars and think about fleet commonality.
Hirnie From Germany, joined May 2004, 581 posts, RR: 1 Reply 3, posted (10 months 1 week 3 days 22 hours ago) and read 1518 times:
CX is always 744 (288/289). The 777 you have seen a couple of months ago must have been a substitute for the 744. CA 744 is unusual these days. Normaly it's a 77W from Beijng and a 343/332 from Shanghai.
PanHAM is right about the QF. They where by far too late the night before with start up at around 22:48 lcl beeing the last in the line... they never made it near the runway...
Semaex From Germany, joined Nov 2009, 769 posts, RR: 2 Reply 4, posted (10 months 1 week 3 days 10 hours ago) and read 1200 times:
Quoting Hirnie (Reply 3): PanHAM is right about the QF. They where by far too late the night before with start up at around 22:48 lcl beeing the last in the line... they never made it near the runway...
Doesn't that happen more often now with the strict 2300L limit? Wouldn't QF consider getting the plane out a couple of minutes earlier? Or are slots the main factor for pushing the departure as far back as possible?
Quoting Tobias2702 (Reply 2): During summer, VN serves Hanoi and Ho-Chi-Minh City from FRA.
Flight 126 to HAN was scheduled to depart at 13:55, delayed until 14:15.
Flight 120 to SGN left on time at 14:30
I know it's wishful thinking, but that schedule would be great for a single A380 one-stop operation!
// You know you're an aviation enthusiast when you look at your neighbour's cars and think about fleet commonality.
PanHAM From Germany, joined May 2005, 7771 posts, RR: 26 Reply 5, posted (10 months 1 week 3 days 10 hours ago) and read 1063 times:
Slots between 22 and 2300 are limited as well and the earlier that flight gets into SIN the longer the transit pax have to wait for their Oz connections. Not really an attractive product anymore, considering that the old departure time (block) was 23h30 and I usually heard the 744 here in my Taunus village a bit after midnight.
Looks the reason for the delay was technical, may be they move the aircraft, which is here all day, half an hour earlier to the stand, but then things can go wrong as well and QF knows what they are doing.
The pity is, if that happens a couple of more times and the state QF is in right now, FRA will lose this flight. Either they give up completely or they will move it to Paris or Amsterdam
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