The passengers were taken from Manchester to Prestwick, arriving 10 hours later than the scheduled arrival time of 6pm on Friday.
Apparently the drive from Manchester to Prestwick is about 4 hours, so it seems like the flight lasted way longer than originally planned with the landing attempts and the pilots burned through their reserve fuel.
another thing with landing - you’re burning a bunch of fuel if you have to abort, especially when you’re a fatass Airbus A320 that has to get back up in the air before the runway turns to grass.
I’m not surprised their fuel was low, that’s an insane time to be in the air if you’re only intending to be in the air for 40 minutes, tops.
nvm the flight was from Italy to Prestwich, not from Prestwick to Manchester (that was the detour).
Still that’s like double the time assuming its like 4 hours normally. How extra fuel are plane meant to carry?
Apparently the drive from Manchester to Prestwick is about 4 hours, so it seems like the flight lasted way longer than originally planned with the landing attempts and the pilots burned through their reserve fuel.
another thing with landing - you’re burning a bunch of fuel if you have to abort, especially when you’re a fatass Airbus A320 that has to get back up in the air before the runway turns to grass.
I’m not surprised their fuel was low,
that’s an insane time to be in the air if you’re only intending to be in the air for 40 minutes, tops.nvm the flight was from Italy to Prestwich, not from Prestwick to Manchester (that was the detour).
Still that’s like double the time assuming its like 4 hours normally. How extra fuel are plane meant to carry?