This is a problem when you have a small long-haul fleet. LAS-MAN is delayed by 36 hours today following a power loss at Los Angeles Centre. BD751 had to divert to Salt Lake, and the crew busted their hours!
http://www.flybmi.com/trade/en-gb/sectionhome.aspx?p=1904&Rid=970
Not very happy people waiting for the BD705, which is sched to leave MAN after 1730, at some point!!
Ouch, but i’m sure they’ll slowly catch up and will be back to normal ops next week
And with MAN-ORD, and LHR-BOM going tech on Monday, and Tuesday, their A330’s havent been having the best of weeks!
Thank god this didn’t happen a week ago, as i was on the BD706 this day last week of course!
By: bmi-star - 21st July 2006 at 11:36
The airline does have a right to cater for the pax – hotels, meals etc etc, but the ” not very happy people at LAS” i’m sure would rather have a fit, fully rested crew fly them home than one who had bust JAR-OPS criteria!
And the fact they were put up in the MGM Grand ain’t bad too! 😮
Things should be up to speed and normal by Tomorrow i should think
By: Mark L - 21st July 2006 at 09:28
and everything published in the newspapers is totally accurate and entirely without embellishment…..
exmpa
Amazing how Bfast Telegraph always has a correspondant onboard flights into and out of NI which have any delay whatsoever. They love reporting these!
On the note of Biz Pax the average BHD-LHR economy pays between 70-90 after tax. Biz pay £144 each way before tax! I bet the people chanting water water (which i doubt happened and I am going to ask a friend who is a BD pilot on the route to validate) where on tiny fare tickets at prob £60-70!
By: EGNM - 21st July 2006 at 02:03
Hang on here, BMI can’t be held fault for a power failure. How long did it take for this to be resolved?
Crew discretion is 2 hoursish (discretion remember – upto the crew to use if they can), so once you have your other crew posn to Salt Lake, fly to LAS etc, they prob wouldn’t have the hours to fly to MAN…
Sector time is 10 hours 40mins from MAN with a report (guestimated at 1.5hours prior to departure – 10am local = 0830 local would give a 14 hour duty, on duty at 0830 runs thorough to 2230 local UK, which is 1430 local time. Normal ETA in LAS would be 1240, which gives a whopping 1 hour 50 mins to play with. So lets say hold for 30 mins before flying 363 miles to SLC – Call it 1 hour flying, that means they are almost out of hours before they land (minus discretion). Then we have to fuel etc (diverts = back of the que!)… out of hours for the inbound crew to even get to LAS…
Outbound crew have then to pick the aircraft up from Salt Lake, before this 1455 local departure back to the UK… 13 hours duty on one sector… oh soz, that was SLC-LAS-MAN – 2 sectors = 11.25 hours… see where we are coming from? This is law not because the airline wants to do it!
The airline does have a right to cater for the pax – hotels, meals etc etc, but the ” not very happy people at LAS” i’m sure would rather have a fit, fully rested crew fly them home than one who had bust JAR-OPS criteria!
What may in fact portray badly on the airline in the media may be just what they are adhearing to legally!
By: exmpa - 20th July 2006 at 19:12
And it gets worse!!
and everything published in the newspapers is totally accurate and entirely without embellishment…..
exmpa
By: David2386 - 20th July 2006 at 18:27
BMA705 is enroute now, over NI.
From that article in the Telegraph, ”But after this, I won’t be flying BMI again.”” Hmm I’ll hold you to that, Missus!
By: allmcc - 20th July 2006 at 15:44
And it gets worse!!
By: SHAMROCK321 - 20th July 2006 at 14:49
Happens to EI all the time their A330s are really over the hill and arnt to reliable espeically when you squeeze European flights between long hauls ones.
By: bmi-star - 20th July 2006 at 14:49
A bad week for bmi then :rolleyes:
I wonder when they have a good week? 😮
By: philgatwick05 - 20th July 2006 at 14:47
A bad week for bmi then :rolleyes:
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