To give an example:streep wrote:In an airline planning tool you will assign routes according to the number of airplanes you have in your fleet.XYZ wrote:You can expect to see a lot of B-6137 and B-6138 in the beginning, as CZ operates two A380s on the following routing:Stefanb wrote:0515-1450 CSN B-6137 A380
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- PEK-CTU-PEK-AMS-PEK
Another 2x CZ A380s are in service on the PEK-CAN-LAX-CAN-PEK rotation, leaving the 5th A380 for one CAN-PEK-CAN domestic rotation and as spare.
Occasionally CZ will interchange aircraft between the CAN-LAX and PEK-AMS routings via the domestic CAN-PEK route.
That does not mean that those routes will be fixed to surtain tail numbers.
otherwise airplane #5 would see very few flight hours.
Scheduled and unscheduled maintenance will probably result in a shift in tail numbers.
Especially since CZ has same cabin config on all A380s.
Last year I noted 4 different CZ A380's on 5 consecutive days in Sydney.[/quote]
The SYD the situation is completely different as the Northern winter service to SYD is also operated from CAN, just as CAN-LAX is. So in winter all A380s are based in a single hub making daily aircraft rotations easy.
What is new with the PEK-AMS-PEK-CTU route is that the two main CZ A380 routes are operated out of two separate bases, only connected with a domestic sector CAN-PEK.
Of course aircraft are rotated over the network, that is precisely what I am saying in the first post.
But I am pointing out that you can expect it to be less frequent compared to operations where all A380s are operated from a single hub.
So, basically we all agree.
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