MD80Nut From United States of America, joined Jul 2003, 871 posts, RR: 10 Posted (9 years 8 months 2 weeks 3 days 14 hours ago) and read 1902 times:
I just cruised by Airbus' website order and delivery section and saw that 260 A310s have been ordered but only 255 have been delivered, leaving 5 units still on order. Does anyone know who the customer is, and will they be passenger or freighter models? I was under the obviously mistaken impression the A310 production line was finished! And if this has been addressed before my apologies, but I couldn't get the search feature to produce an answer.
Scbriml From United Kingdom, joined Jul 2003, 11366 posts, RR: 50 Reply 2, posted (9 years 8 months 2 weeks 3 days 14 hours ago) and read 1854 times:
Personally, I'd be surprised to see LAA take these up now, but the order on the books could be a handy bargaining chip now that UN sanctions have been lifted.
KL808 From United States of America, joined May 1999, 1573 posts, RR: 2 Reply 3, posted (9 years 8 months 2 weeks 3 days 13 hours ago) and read 1802 times:
These aircrafts where ordered by Iraqi Airways before the first gulf war, after sanctions they could not be delivered, or made.
KQ777 From United States of America, joined Aug 2003, 125 posts, RR: 0 Reply 5, posted (9 years 8 months 2 weeks 3 days 13 hours ago) and read 1755 times:
Is Airbus still taking orders for the A310? Are PIA's aircraft going to be new builds?
OD720 From Lebanon, joined Feb 2003, 1919 posts, RR: 36 Reply 7, posted (9 years 8 months 2 weeks 3 days 11 hours ago) and read 1646 times:
Even though the A310 line is not officially closed, Airbus has not been marketing the type for some time now. Instead, they seem to offer the larger A330-200 to customers. For this reason, it is most likely that PIA will be leasing the additional A310s needed for their fleet.
The last A310 was built in 1998, I think it went to Uzbekistan Airways.
BAJMowiec From United States of America, joined Aug 2003, 99 posts, RR: 0 Reply 8, posted (9 years 8 months 2 weeks 3 days 11 hours ago) and read 1614 times:
Hey,
You guys mean the A310 is not in production anymore ?!?
Dutchjet From Netherlands, joined Oct 2000, 7864 posts, RR: 58 Reply 9, posted (9 years 8 months 2 weeks 3 days 11 hours ago) and read 1584 times:
The A310 and passenger verions of the A300 fall under the odd category of airliners that are no longer actively marketed by the manufacturer, but are available if an airline would place an order.......its a gray area, since airliners are rarely built without an order, so what is the difference? To make it simple, as long as the A300 line is open and producing freighters, Airbus can supply an A310 (or passenger A300, as was done for JAS a few years ago) should an airline really want one. Of course, Airbus would much rather sell an A332 than and A310, but that is another issue.
The best example I can think of is Continentals purchase of 10 762s which they received a couple of years ago.....until CO's order (part of their 764 deal I believe), a 762 had not come off of the 767 production line for about 4 years I think and Boeing was not actively marketing the type. CO needed an airliner for long range services that was smaller than the 764, so Boeing built 10 new 762s for Continental with some of new features (including the interior style) of the 764s.
BAJMowiec From United States of America, joined Aug 2003, 99 posts, RR: 0 Reply 10, posted (9 years 8 months 2 weeks 3 days 11 hours ago) and read 1573 times:
Hey,
Dutchjet, thanks for clearing that up. I would be very sad to see the A310 go.
Solnabo From Sweden, joined Jan 2008, 787 posts, RR: 2 Reply 12, posted (9 years 8 months 2 weeks 3 days 10 hours ago) and read 1503 times:
The same with the 300, there´s some in order,
UPS got A300F4-6??, buildt 2001......
Maybe FedEx orders the remaining 310´s, can´t
imagine theyré to be pax a/c.
Cheers
Michael/SE
I think the JAS A306 order was more recent than a couple of years ago, infact have they all been delivered to JAL yet?
JAS just couldnt find a suitable replacement for their 20 year old A300s and ordered new passenger A300s. If airbus carries on delaying an A306/A313 replacement or update, I could see another couple of orders for the types trickeling through maybe from Lufthansa or some other airline that apreciates them.
Spacepope From Vatican City, joined Dec 1999, 2739 posts, RR: 1 Reply 14, posted (9 years 8 months 2 weeks 2 days 2 hours ago) and read 1330 times:
All 3 of JAS's recent A-300 orders have been filled. JAS has also recently eliminated at least one older (B2/B4?) A-300, which is flying in full JAS colors minus titles for a charter company.
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