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A Superjumbo flew the longest ever A380 flight and no one noticed
On December 19th, a Qantas Airbus A380-800 flew the longest ever A380 flight from Dresden to Sydney. The aircraft (reg. VH-OQH) called ‘Reginald Ansett’ took 18 hrs and 26 minutes and covered 16,105 kms to reach Sydney. But this flight was not part of Project Sunrise. The Airbus A380 was flying a non commercial service, with empty seats as well as it didn’t have cargo load. ‘Reginald Ansett’ spent the last few weeks in hall 285 at Dresden Airport to be upgraded with a new cabin. (www.airlive.net) 기타...
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Should have ferried to London and used as a revenue flight. They could have filled it up particularly in the Christmas season.
Yes indeed, very wasteful.
There was probably a reason
The reason is that you need a extra crew on the ground which would need to get there off-duty taking away capacity from other regular flights plus hosting the crew for a couple of days, etc. You also don't know if it was exactly predictable how long the job in Dresden would actually take. The schedule was obviously very tight as the aircraft went into normal service again right after it had arrived at Sydney. I would agree that it could probably have been planned differently, but not just like that.
Think of the "Carbon Footprint" Yikes! Don't tell Greta!
Two days later, the aircraft had a diversion from LAX. After going outbound for and hour, it did a 180 and held (dumping fuel?) around LAX until landing. Anyone know what that was about?
