GoBlue From Canada, joined Jun 2006, 216 posts, RR: 0 Reply 1, posted (2 years 3 months 2 weeks 3 days 5 hours ago) and read 2043 times:
Possibly some of the A320's that AC is giving up on a pretty consistant basis. They are well maintained... and Eithad would be able to use these for a while despite their age.
Scbriml From United Kingdom (England), joined Jul 2003, 8923 posts, RR: 50 Reply 2, posted (2 years 3 months 2 weeks 3 days 5 hours ago) and read 2043 times:
Knoxibus From France, joined Aug 2007, 133 posts, RR: 17 Reply 3, posted (2 years 3 months 2 weeks 3 days 5 hours ago) and read 1964 times:
From what I know:
One A320, MSN 350, to be procured from ACA after transfer to AMC who will wet lease it to ETD.
The two others will come from ILFC, MSN 3056 & 3068, again operated by AMC and tol be wet leased to ETD shortly after MSN 350.Normally they are here to serve intra Gulf routes.
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Flydreamliner From Korea, joined Jan 2006, 2615 posts, RR: 21 Reply 6, posted (2 years 3 months 2 weeks 2 days 21 hours ago) and read 1447 times:
Quoting Thorben (Reply 4): 20 Business, 120 Economy, that is a pretty comfy layout for an A320 if you ask me. Anyway, it will be nice to see them in the EK livery.
That's going to be packing the Y pretty tight. I think UA has 138 seats on their A320 and they have what, 12 first, 126 coach (including Y+). It sounds to me that with that big of a first section, they'll have 31-32" pitch in Y. Given Etihad's product excellence, I'd expect them to be some of the nicest narrowbodies around, but that actually sounds like these A320s will be packed kind of tight.
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JoKeR From Serbia, joined Nov 2004, 1937 posts, RR: 11 Reply 7, posted (2 years 3 months 2 weeks 2 days 21 hours ago) and read 1426 times:
I think that this is a smart move, and depending on the size of the fleet they acquire, they can get into new "slimmer" routes - further afield and with feeder potential (ie CIS, Eastern and Southern Europe, East Africa etc.), before their main competitor - EK, whose risks are proportionally higher seeing that the A330 is the smallest aircraft they operate.
Thorben From Germany, joined Sep 2005, 3243 posts, RR: 4 Reply 9, posted (2 years 3 months 2 weeks 1 day 4 hours ago) and read 653 times:
Quoting BA319-131 (Reply 5):
- Yes it will, though you are meaning EY.
Ops, yes I mean EY, of course.
Quoting Flydreamliner (Reply 6): That's going to be packing the Y pretty tight. I think UA has 138 seats on their A320 and they have what, 12 first, 126 coach (including Y+). It sounds to me that with that big of a first section, they'll have 31-32" pitch in Y. Given Etihad's product excellence, I'd expect them to be some of the nicest narrowbodies around, but that actually sounds like these A320s will be packed kind of tight.
Why packed, it depends on how many seats per row they have in first class. Could be four, could be five, probably not six.
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