America - urgently

[Petrus1983]

I’m through to a very surreal Dallas international airport. They did a health screen questionnaire onboard the flight with official staff asking questions on disembarkation- no temperature checks. The TSA guy was super quick and had no problems at all about me leaving so soon.

Thanks for all your help/good wishes - really appreciated.

[Petrus1983]

abzmike said:

So given that they have let you in - in no small part to your good planning - have you been told to quarantine on pain of arrest, or because you have a return ticket just been told to make sure you do?
Hope all goes well with your ‘collection’.

We were all given this leaflet -


We also had to say where we were staying for our first night after the flight. It’s very much an advisory though. There’s signs on the store I’ve just been to and the hotel entrance saying that face masks are now mandatory- I haven’t seen anyone where one yet.

[Petrus1983]

TTmonkey said:

Just seen Petrus on a webcam at the airport in the US.....

I was trying to be incognito

[Petrus1983]

smack said:

That cabin crew member was talking st, a 777F can only take 103t in belly and main deck, The maximum payload for the 777-300ER cargo conversions (no 777 has been converted although they are over 20 years old as the passenger version has composite floor beams, which are costly to replace to put in a solid deck for cargo, so cargo companies just snap up old cheap 767's instead) is expected to be 101t, so the deck loads are too high for that just in the belly, and with a fully loaded passenger 777-300ER you can add 23t of cargo, configuration and distance dependent. The maximum payload weight of a 300ER is about 400,000lbs (181t), which is people, cargo, fuel, and probably something the lass heard, being the total payload of the aircraft, and misunderstood, and passing off that she knew what she was talking about.

Anyhow, whatever, it doesn't matter. Just get your kid and yourself back safe.

Edited by smack on Monday 29th June 04:32

I’m not saying she isn’t wrong but Wiki suggests the longer range 777-300ER with a MTOW of 766,000–775,000 lb (347–352 t). This was what I was on -

[Petrus1983]

Smack - that’s really cool stuff and I’m definitely not doubting you! We landed an hour earlier than expected which is my first time when flying towards the States - so happy days

[Petrus1983]

Thanks Interstellar - I am indeed now heading back.

It’s pretty shocking though to realise how hard it was to get to America - just for our government to allow a flight full of Texans back into the UK unquestioned. Most people on the flight have no idea they were meant to quarantine until an announcement after we’d left the gate.

On Sunday going to America we were 20% capacity - it’d guesstimate we’re around 70% on this one coming from one of the worlds worst Covid hotspots.

And boom - just like that the last 3 weeks of ‘issues’ are suddenly worth it -

Eta - actually delete a photo in mind of the Bobbers thread!

Edited by Petrus1983 on Wednesday 1st July 01:35