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Old 26th July 2023, 09:40 AM
MarkR MarkR is offline
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Originally Posted by Rowan McKeever View Post
This reluctance was believed at the time to be one of the main problems for the VA service to JNB as the optimal routing takes the aircraft into the polar region, so the VA flight had to take on extra track miles and less favourable winds.
VA operated under ETOPs180 which decided their routing, nothing else.
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