Who says we need global to properly fly big planes?

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I’m only joking of course but very interesting news here Emirates lands in Doha with world’s shortest A380 flight ;)

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I think it’s pretty descriptive.

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Wow! When I flew that route, I was only in an Qatar A320!

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Good catch…however at present we don’t have either of those two airports in an IF region so we still cant replicate it.

However if you want to fly a real wide body route that is currently available in the regions, try this one:

British Airways 2157 ‘heavy’. From Antigua (TAPA ) to St Kitts (TKPK ) B772.

IRL it is flown twice a week, (Wednesday and Sunday) as a tag on sector from a LGW to TAPA sector.

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Oh god what! 777s for that route and A318s for LCY-JFK?

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I feel this is a duplicate, not 100000.0000% sure

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TAPA to TKPK is around 53nm and KLAX to KSAN is around 90nm long! Then, TAPA to TKPK is by a 777 and KLAX to KSAN by an Embraer 175! Holy moly this is weird!

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What! I thought you were joking @David_Lockwood

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The flight comes from LHR, stops of at Antigua, then continues on. Nothing wierd.

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Nope, it comes from LGW :)

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Really? Couldn’t it fly 53 more miles? I mean it’s a 777.

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Whoops! Caribbean flights come from LGW, right?

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Looks like the route has a high demand…would be nice to this when global is released.

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I don’t think people should buy first class on this short flight. Is waste of money. Anyway, this is a pretty short flight:)

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Just because it’s a real flight doesn’t mean it isn’t self defeating.

Wait for Global to get proper use out of heavies.

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I hope Emirates understands now that buying loads of a380’s was a mistake…

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They don’t and it wasn’t.

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Mistakes Emirates did

Flying to Christchurch with an A380. Christchurch isn’t an A380 airport.
Next up : GA airports

Flying to Doha with their A380’s…
Could of just taken the 777’s.

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Believe it or not, planes age more gracefully while in active service.

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There is a daily flight from LGW to Antigia, twice a week it flys on to St Kiss and the other days it flys to a different Caribs destination.

Also it’s weight restricted getting in and out of St Kitts so you couldn’t be fully laden for. A return flight direct to LGW.

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