Thomas Cook Airlines Belgium Brussels-Lanzarote-Brussels

Jense · Post by **Jense** » 05 Aug 2006, 20:26

Yearly holiday was again to Lanzarote (= Canary Islands), from 1 till 15 july. As usual, Thomas Cook Airlines Belgium was the airline.

BRU-ACE, FQ 6532, OO-TCK

Taxiing to RWY 07R with a view on the destroyed hangar:

After take-off, turning right to join our SID towards CIV (Chièvres):

Starting our descend towards Lanzarote, seen from the cabin (interactive movies just ending):

Arrived in Lanzarote, I made a helicopter flight as a birthday present. A great experience, too much pics to post them all.

Underneath is a pic when we were approaching the platform, with a view on this great livery:

Time was passing by so quick again, so after the helicopter flight I made a quick visit to Guiacimeta beach (under the approach path of RWY 03)

Again only 1 picture, way too much to post them all so...:

(A 757 taking off from RWY 03)

After 14 days in Lanzarote, time to get back to Belgium.

ACE-FAO-BRU, FQ 6103, OO-TCK

Because of the high load of our A320 and strong Northern winds all the way to BRU, we had to make a fuel stop in FAO:

Once refueled, we were back in the air for a 2,5 hour flight to BRU:

I hope you enjoyed reading this little report!

airazurxtror · Post by **airazurxtror** » 05 Aug 2006, 20:36

Jense wrote:
I hope you enjoyed reading this little report!

Very much indeed !
Many thanks !

Post by **sn26567** » 08 Aug 2006, 11:29

Nice report from a place I know very well because my daughter lives there.

Stephen · Post by **Stephen** » 08 Aug 2006, 11:33

Is it usual that a A320 must make a fuelstop on a flight ACE to BRU?
I thought they could fly much further!

Brgds, Stephen

744rules · Post by **744rules** » 08 Aug 2006, 12:17

this sector should be no problem for an A320, unless the flight has performance restrictions due temperature, runway length, technical issues, .... and thus cannot take off with its max structural weight

JetB · Post by **JetB** » 08 Aug 2006, 13:58

Nice report Jense, I enjoyed reading it

MSS658 · Post by **MSS658** » 08 Aug 2006, 23:15

Nice Report

stevie · Post by **stevie** » 09 Aug 2006, 09:58

nice nice nice

Jense · Post by **Jense** » 19 Aug 2006, 18:33

Stephen wrote:Is it usual that a A320 must make a fuelstop on a flight ACE to BRU?

The reason for the fuel stop is something typical for ACE.

At the end of RWY 03 (mostly used for ARR/DEP), there are some mountains obstructing a little bit. The calculations for take-off are based on the power of 1 engine. With a full load of pax (180 pax, we had 176 pax) and lugguage, it's impossible to get airborne with reduced power and to safely avoid the mountains. Another reason was because of the strong winds from the North.

That's the reason why we made the fuel stop.

Also the reason why you'll mostly see flights from ACE first flying to TFS, FUE, ... and than to BRU (so BRU-ACE-TFS-BRU).

Source: captains of Thomas Cook and Jetairfly.

Post by **sn26567** » 20 Aug 2006, 09:34

Thanks for the explanation, jense. I learned something today.

TC-MNE · Post by **TC-MNE** » 20 Aug 2006, 12:16

This kind of fuelstop is usual indeed, I remember a few years ago, when we went to Lanzarote, our sobelair B737-400 had to make a fuelstop in Faro as well...