Interesting to read that Qantas had to off-load 90 passengers from yesterday's QF9 MEL-PER-LHR flight : 50 from the MEL-PER leg and a further 40 passengers from the PER-LHR leg, in order to give the flight enough range to bypass Iran on way to UK - with flight time extended by 50 minutes. EDIT : VH-ZNE has just landed after a 17 hour 56 minute flight.
Apparently due wind patterns, there was no need to do the same on QF10 !
No doubt this reduction/extension will be in place for some time.
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