Emirates

[Kevin Farnell]

Heathrow is stopping all arrivals and departures for 2 hours for the funeral, the Queen will travel from central London to Windsor which is directly under the 27 flight path and 09 flight path, reason is 1) out of respect to the queen 2) the amount of news helicoptors and police helicopters following it to Windsor

Info credit to Sam Jennings who works at LHR

So will BHX see other diverts on Monday, closure for 2 hours is pretty big ?

Im sure the like of Qatar, Ethihad and the US carriers won't want to miss out ?

Heathrow did not stop all arrivals and departures for 2 hours. They closed certain Standard Instrument Departure (SID's) routes during the ceremony. I posted the NOTAM in the' Heathrow Airport - General Thread' -

https://forums4airports.com/threads/82/post-247357

A further NOTAM has been issued for Monday, which is likely to have a much greater effect -

https://forums4airports.com/threads/82/post-247403

Kevin

Post automatically merged: Sep 15, 2022

Monday if FR24 doesn't crash should be interesting

I wouldn't expect there to be much higher demand on FR24 than usual on Monday. There's no special flight that people will be wanting to track, as there was with the flight returning Her Majesty's coffin to London.

Kevin

 

[mullion]

There are others, I used adsb exchange which had no problems

 

[RichL]

Once in a lifetime Queens funeral or not, I’d be majorly pissed off coming to Birmingham when I’m supposed to be arriving at Heathrow then having to get a bus or chauffeur car to my destination adding another 2 to 3 hours on.

Sorry I think it’s ridiculous. Delay the flight from Dubai even.

 

[DarloPlaneBoy]

Once in a lifetime Queens funeral or not, I’d be majorly pissed off coming to Birmingham when I’m supposed to be arriving at Heathrow then having to get a bus or chauffeur car to my destination adding another 2 to 3 hours on.

Sorry I think it’s ridiculous. Delay the flight from Dubai even.

I wouldn't Mind if EK were flying us back to LHR If I was travelling in Bussiness or First use the lounge if I was Economy use Vouchers to get food board and then fly back. I would also be annoyed using The Remote Stand for an A380

 

[RichL]

Are they closing Gatwick? Divert it there otherwise.

 

[HPsauce]

Are they closing Gatwick? Divert it there otherwise.

Gatwick will be busy enough, without even more aircraft to deal with.

 

[RichL]

So send it to somewhere that wont be busy - Birmingham!!! Yay!!!

It can compete with Ryanair and Tui for prestige I suppose

 

[IanFarquharson]

One way is that in the ACL slot publications, it lists the number of slots requested and the number of seats associated with those slots. Divide the total seats by the total slots and you get seats per aircraft. Check that against the airlines fleet and you can usually figure it out.

Correct - Emirates planning for 12 x A388 and 2 x B77W pw

 

[Birmingham Aviation]

You lot do realise that this will probably officially get announced around new year

Post automatically merged: Nov 13, 2022

Correct - Emirates planning for 12 x A388 and 2 x B77W pw

What days would say the B777 will happen on ?.I’m saying a Saturday

 

[Matt995]

Correct - Emirates planning for 12 x A388 and 2 x B77W pw

It's not like Emirates to mix their aircraft at BHX like this.

Would it not be more realistic to see them operate 1 A380 & 1 B773 March-April, and then go double daily A380 from 1st May? would account for the average seat of 588 per flight, with the A380 having 615 seats, the B773 428 seats?

 

[David_itl]

Possibly cargo related?

 

[Scania1800]

demand on EK40 is fairly high. However the 2nd daily service (37/38) aren't as popular. I also seen that emirates have started bringing back more 2 class A380s from storage

 

[Kevin Farnell]

Welcome to the forum, Scania1800.

demand on EK40 is fairly high. However the 2nd daily service (37/38) aren't as popular. I also seen that emirates have started bringing back more 2 class A380s from storage

I always thought that it was EK37/38 that was the busier service. When it was 1 x B777 and 1 x A380 per day, I'm sure that the A380 was on the evening flight.

Kevin

 

[DarloPlaneBoy]

Welcome to the forum, Scania1800.


I always thought that it was EK37/38 that was the busier service. When it was 1 x B777 and 1 x A380 per day, I'm sure that the A380 was on the evening flight.

Kevin

Could have sworn that to the A380 used to fly over Darlaston at like 18:30PM to 19:30PM is in 15 was In use

 

[Matt995]

I always thought that it was EK37/38 that was the busier service. When it was 1 x B777 and 1 x A380 per day, I'm sure that the A380 was on the evening flight.

Kevin

The A380 was introduced on the lunchtime service first in 2016 from the end of March to the end of December.

From January 2017 they swapped it over to the evening service, then from the end of October 2017, it went double daily.

 

[Karl C]

Back in the day, I would book most peeps for down under on the EK37/38....better connections for Australasia.

 

[RichL]

Yep. Concur. Ten times I’ve done Oz / New Zealand and always took the night flight. That way you used to be able to get 412 / 434 / 406 etc.

Only time took the lunchtime one was for the connection to Perth.

 

[Scania1800]

Back in the day, I would book most peeps for down under on the EK37/38....better connections for Australasia.

Yeah, but generally most people use emirates for India / Pakistan. EK38 isn't the best in connecting to those flights. However 40 connects to a lot of flights.

 

[CL44]

Ah well, I suppose it was good while it lasted! Personally I would prefer a mix of 773 and A380 (with the 773 on the Lunchtime service). Cargo (which used to be the poor relation) has really come into play over the last few years. Whilst it is nice to have a nice shiny A380 for a passengers point of view, the 773 works wonders for both passengers and cargo at the same time!

 

[A330]

Yeah, but generally most people use emirates for India / Pakistan. EK38 isn't the best in connecting to those flights. However 40 connects to a lot of flights.

It's worth remembering not all on Emirates are connecting to India and Pakistan. There are decent numbers connecting on to destinations such as Male, Bangkok and Australia.

I could be wrong, however I think those visiting Dubai are more likely to travel on the evening flight?

Ah well, I suppose it was good while it lasted! Personally I would prefer a mix of 773 and A380 (with the 773 on the Lunchtime service). Cargo (which used to be the poor relation) has really come into play over the last few years. Whilst it is nice to have a nice shiny A380 for a passengers point of view, the 773 works wonders for both passengers and cargo at the same time!

Yes, the 777 is a mighty beast but a noisy one at that, at least from a passenger's perspective! One can forget how loud them GE90s can sound until you fly an A380 and connect on to a 777 or vice versa. The best seats on the 777 are in front of the engine.

Personally, I'm happy we have a year round double daily service so don't mind the equipment being used.