This morning around 0710LT AA038 a 767-300ER landed at BRU. The flight, coming from Dallas (KDFW) was bound for Zurich.
It had to make a diversion due to low fuel. Don't know if it is a fuelleak or a 'mistake' in the calculation. Maybe someone has more info about that.
AA038 at BRU
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Wel it is normal to make very sharp fuel calculations. It can happen offcourse in this case that you don't make it. An other thing that could happen is that it used the following method: They filed Dallas-Brussels with alternate Zurich nevertheles the destination is Zurich. As the crossing is going as planned or better you can take the decision to go to Zurich iso landing in Brussels the moment you have to start decend for Brussels. This method gives the benefid that you can take more payload then when you file Dallas-Zurich with alternate(Brussels for example) because this forces you to take more fuel.
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Favorable wind speed 4 trans-Atlantic crossing AA38/19SEP
Could not find AA38/18-19 in Flightview as date pasted.Brubiac wrote:This morning around 0710LT AA038 a 767-300ER landed at BRU. The flight, coming from Dallas (KDFW) was bound for Zurich. Maybe someone has more info about that.
But for next time, please check it this way and eventually post your info as follows?
The return flight was not much delayed:
American Airlines Flight Number 37 (AA37)
Departure Airport: ZRH
Scheduled Time: 10:10 AM, Sep 19
Actual Time: 10:24 AM, Sep 19 (only 14' late)
Arrival Airport: Dallas/Ft. Worth, TX
Scheduled Time: 2:25 PM, Sep 19
Actual Time: 2:10 PM, Sep 19 ( 15' early)
Status: Landed
Equipment: B763
American Airlines: Flight Number 38 (AA38)
Departure Airport: Dallas/Ft. Worth, TX
Scheduled Time: 3:00 PM, Sep 19
Actual Time: 3:18 PM, Sep 19
Arrival Airport: ZRH
Scheduled Time: 7:55 AM, Sep 20
Actual Time: 7:10 AM, Sep 20
Status: Landed (45' ahead of STA)
Equipment: B763
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This time / next time
Yes, otherwise this forum soon looks like a dusty museum: this is the bed Napoleon slept in....concordino wrote:?!?!?But for next time, please check it this way and eventually post your info as follows?
Would be nicer to have a picture of that, of him and with whom!
And it takes a little more time than posting:
or 'Just a quick request.'?!?!?
Some people seem only want to take.... and I'm not aiming at you, dear Brubiac.
I wrote And I wrote: "for next time" because "I [this time] could not find AA38/18-19 in Flightview as date pasted."But for next time, please check it this way and eventually post your info as follows ?
PS I think I'll have to revert to my earlier bottomline
Hi Brubiac,Brubiac wrote:Ok SN30952, next time I will do it like you did it.
I didn't know that site but now I do, I can be more specific.
I have been searching for an answer to your initial question: Don't know if it is a fuelleak or a 'mistake' in the calculation. Maybe someone has more info about that.
I found out the Jet Stream did some strange wave last WE. Probably due to the T storms, particularly 'Jeanne'
Look at this map, and you see that the flight had to head North to avoid T-storms, with head wind:
headwinds out of DFW and click also 'Get past 48 hours observations'
Hope that might have been an explanation.
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