emirates202 From United States of America, joined Nov 2011, 237 posts, RR: 0 Posted (9 months 6 days 5 hours ago) and read 11259 times:
I flew into JFK on CX 888 the morning of the 15th, and noticed that an EK A380 was still there, meaning it hadn't departed for Dubai the night before. I checked the status, and due to mechanical reasons, it was delayed until 1:30am on the 16th. A few hours later, they cancelled it.
Anyone have any info on what was wrong with the aircraft? Also, what do they do with the extra plane? Does it fly back to DXB empty with the crew that were supposed to fly it back, or what?
michaeljp From United States of America, joined Nov 2004, 179 posts, RR: 0 Reply 1, posted (9 months 6 days 3 hours ago) and read 11010 times:
Can't answer what was wrong however they will do a positioning flight whereby an empty ac is flown to JFK (depending on loads of course), the crew from empty airplane stay and operate the tech ac back while the op crew from the tech airplane would operate the working aircraft back to dxb.
Duty time regs etc.
spiritair97 From United States of America, joined Jan 2011, 1231 posts, RR: 1 Reply 3, posted (9 months 6 days 1 hour ago) and read 10526 times:
Quoting Auchmithie (Reply 2): The tech aircraft, A6-EDB, operated JFK-DXB as EK202D at around 0700 on 16th August
I'm really surprised I didn't see it depart. I flew out of JFK on the morning of the 16th and was at JFK from 0600 to 1015 (Two hour delay) but didn't see it.
Mark2fly1034 From United States of America, joined Oct 2011, 57 posts, RR: 0 Reply 4, posted (9 months 5 days 15 hours ago) and read 6127 times:
They could of still used it for pax protection DL does that all the time if one of the overseas flights go tech they will fix it and use it for pax protection.
Josh32121 From United States of America, joined Apr 2008, 325 posts, RR: 1 Reply 5, posted (9 months 4 days 23 hours ago) and read 1899 times:
Quoting Mark2fly1034 (Reply 4): They could of still used it for pax protection DL does that all the time if one of the overseas flights go tech they will fix it and use it for pax protection.
MEL From Canada, joined Oct 1999, 1082 posts, RR: 13 Reply 7, posted (9 months 4 days 16 hours ago) and read 1488 times:
Pax protection means pax rebooking options. Often the term "no protection or no pro" means no rebooking options are available on the same airline due to all other flights being full already.
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