SA744 From South Africa, joined Nov 2005, 201 posts, RR: 0 Posted (6 years 10 months 3 weeks 6 days 9 hours ago) and read 4745 times:
Hello All
Was just on the Thai airways website and see that they will no longer be flying the 772 but the A346 on the JNB route anybody know why they have changed it.
HB-IWC From Greece, joined Sep 2000, 4418 posts, RR: 75 Reply 5, posted (6 years 10 months 3 weeks 6 days 7 hours ago) and read 4581 times:
As always with TG, we'll only know what it's really looking like once the first flight lands in JNB. Meanwhile, anything is in the cards. Remember that the BKK JNB service was announced twice before (once with MD11 and once with B744) and that it failed to materialize both times.
A388 From Netherlands Antilles, joined May 2001, 9132 posts, RR: 13 Reply 8, posted (6 years 10 months 3 weeks 6 days 4 hours ago) and read 4390 times:
TG has a few 772ER on order, six as mentioned in below press release.
Dutchjet From Netherlands, joined Oct 2000, 7864 posts, RR: 58 Reply 9, posted (6 years 10 months 3 weeks 6 days 1 hour ago) and read 4269 times:
Quoting SA7700 (Reply 7): Unless the orders appear under IFLC or UFO, for which I humbly apologise if that indeed is the case, I don't see any active orders for TG with Boeing
First, I made an error - Thai has 772ERs on order and not 773ERs on order, my mistake.
Second, the list you are referring to only lists orders placed by carriers during 2006, Thai placed the order for the 772ERs during 2005. That is why you did not find the Thai order on the list. (I have made the same mistake.)
Yes, it is odd that Thai ordered the A345/A346 and the 772ER during the same period.....and Thais fleet will now include the 734/743/744/772A/772ER/773ER/A300-600(PW & GE)/A333/A345/A346....not the most cohesive fleet, is it?
SA7700 From South Africa, joined Dec 2003, 2930 posts, RR: 20 Reply 10, posted (6 years 10 months 3 weeks 6 days ago) and read 4253 times:
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Quoting Dutchjet (Reply 9): Second, the list you are referring to only lists orders placed by carriers during 2006, Thai placed the order for the 772ERs during 2005. That is why you did not find the Thai order on the list. (I have made the same mistake.)
Thanks for that Dutchjet
Rgds
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6thfreedom From Bermuda, joined Sep 2004, 3267 posts, RR: 21 Reply 14, posted (6 years 10 months 3 weeks 5 days 11 hours ago) and read 3719 times:
The A346 funding the JNB flights will be funded by the aircraft currently used on the MEL sector.
The new B772ER will be deployed to MEL as of 1 Dec.
1 x B772ER to operate TG981/982 4 times pw.
1 x B772ER to operate the new delinked services which will replace TG993/994 that currently operates on BKK-SYD-MEL-BKK routing.
The new service will operate similar times as TG999/980
6thfreedom From Bermuda, joined Sep 2004, 3267 posts, RR: 21 Reply 18, posted (6 years 10 months 3 weeks 4 days 18 hours ago) and read 3035 times:
Quoting Solnabo (Reply 17): 267 seats in A346 in TG´s configuration? Why so little?
The a/c can take 350 + !!
60 J class, which I think is absurd.
But I think TG has got it right on the B772ERs.
30 flat bed J, and 262 Y class.
If I were TG, i would reconfig the A346's in the same manner.
get rid of 20-30 J class, and add another 60 Y class, to make it
8 F, 30 J, 260-270 Y class.
OldAeroGuy From United States of America, joined Dec 2004, 3219 posts, RR: 66 Reply 19, posted (6 years 10 months 3 weeks 4 days 17 hours ago) and read 3017 times:
If I were TG, i would reconfig the A346's in the same manner.
get rid of 20-30 J class, and add another 60 Y class, to make it
8 F, 30 J, 260-270 Y class.
The backpackers in Y don't pay as much as the business folks in J.
It's just an TG decision on how they think revenue will be maximized in a given market.
Airplane design is easy, the difficulty is getting them to fly - Barnes Wallis
ZKNBX From New Zealand, joined Jul 2006, 464 posts, RR: 0 Reply 21, posted (6 years 10 months 3 weeks 4 days 12 hours ago) and read 2925 times:
Quoting SA7700 (Reply 7): Unless the orders appear under IFLC or UFO, for which I humbly apologise if that indeed is the case, I don't see any active orders for TG with Boeing.
Funny thing that. I checked the other day for the SQ order for B77W AND it also is not listed on the Boeing website. I wasn't aware that SQ B77Ws would be leased. Can anybody confirm details?
ZK-NBT From New Zealand, joined Oct 2000, 5025 posts, RR: 12 Reply 22, posted (6 years 10 months 3 weeks 4 days 10 hours ago) and read 2840 times:
Quoting ZKNBX (Reply 21):
Funny thing that. I checked the other day for the SQ order for B77W AND it also is not listed on the Boeing website. I wasn't aware that SQ B77Ws would be leased. Can anybody confirm details?
I think you should read a little further on.
Quoting Dutchjet (Reply 9): Second, the list you are referring to only lists orders placed by carriers during 2006, Thai placed the order for the 772ERs during 2005. That is why you did not find the Thai order on the list. (I have made the same mistake.)
As to SQ i doubt that many of the 77W's will be leased will they? Most if not all will be brought outright i'd think.
LPLAspotter From Portugal, joined Jan 2005, 682 posts, RR: 1 Reply 25, posted (6 years 10 months 3 weeks 4 days 9 hours ago) and read 2753 times:
Could the A346 be used to due ETOPS areas over the Indian Ocean. I don't think they can make an emergency at Diego Garcia. Just curious. I do remember seeing an SQ 310 at MRU when they first started the route. I had dinner with a British Airways captain who was on loan to Air Mauritius to fly the 707 and he even stated that he was surprised to see the 2 engine airplane fly the route to asia. However, nowdays I believe MK flies the 767 to many places in Asia. Just wondering if anybody knows if they have to make any large deviations to their flight plan when flying ETOPS over the Indian Ocian.
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