Originally Posted by
BMEP100
That was 20 years ago.
Swiss Air still does, btw. Fly it unaugmented.
LCAL didn't fly TATL unaugmented for the last 20 years? I must've been in a Twilight Zone episode in late 2011 when I nonrevved EWR-CDG. I sat next to the
deadheading third pilot who would be the IRO on the return trip and told me that this was a common practice and explained that it was cheaper to the company to deadhead him than fly the leg.
Anyway, circling back around to the original statement that I challenged (which opened up this entire thread derailment):
Originally Posted by
89Pistons
A friend of mine commented that some of the augmented 756 routes out of EWR to Europe could do a lot of those trips un-augmented due to the 787's speed advantage. Didn't cross my mind until then. Then took a look at the Europe trips and their associated block time on the 756. Subtract 15-30 minutes off of the westbound portion and some of those routes could possibly fall into un-augmented territory (AMS, LHR, CDG). Hopefully the 787 routes that are announced don't fall there. If they do then the bid might not cause much chaos as many will avoid 2 man Atlantic flying.
I don't think that the EWR 787 is going to go junior because of some unaugmented flying. I'll wager that it will be more senior than SFO 787.