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This is not a special Lufthansa thing. The majority of airlines from Europe limit visual approaches to daylight. It does not apply to their home base, which i
by ho_schi 3y ago
This is not a special Lufthansa thing. The majority of airlines from Europe limit visual approaches to daylight.
It does not apply to their home base, which is Frankfurt and Munich. The pilots are familiar with these airports, traffic patterns and so on.
Lufthansa tries to schedule outbound flights so that they arrive at daytime - if possible.
I don’t know why the controller was handling the situation that way. Taking flight duration and delay into account that was uncomfortable for the crew and passengers. And a waste of fuel. Mind the necessary repositioning of the plane, they had to move it to SFO later anyway.
I think it is tough when people discuss your work in public. And I’m not involved and lack knowledge! I hope the involved people learn and improve. We are all humans and make mistakes and/or misbehave. I have a lot to improve.
- throwaway2037 3y agoNice post. This part: <<This is not a special Lufthansa thing. The majority of airlines from Europe limit visual approaches to daylight.>> This sounds reasonable to me as a safety precaution. I tried Googling, but I couldn't find anything. How do you know this information?
- ho_schi 3y agohttps://youtu.be/qNtDdmq-b5M?si=hoMslBXthGoj9YZU https://youtu.be/qNtDdmq-b5M?si=hoMslBXthGoj9YZU 09:50 It is not Lufthansa specific and applies also for many other airlines. Quote German pilot working for Condor. Sadly there are no closed-captions in English available. https://aviation.stackexchange.com/a/47652 https://aviation.stackexchange.com/a/47652 In Europe it is quite common for airline companies to only allow their aircrews visual approaches at their home bases (e.g. Amsterdam for KLM) or, in case the company uses several hubs, on those hubs. Quote I anssume access to the individual company procedures isn’t possible.
- throwaway2037 3y agoExcellent reply. Thank you!