olddominion727 From United States of America, joined Jan 2012, 336 posts, RR: 0 Posted (9 months 4 days ago) and read 2223 times:
Curious about something... I see 2 RG 772's @ MZJ. Why wouldn't DL, AA, UA take them into their fleet and replace a few older 76X, or even US add them to their fleet to do the PHL-PVG route they were awarded? Wouldn't they go for cheap?
TC957 From UK - England, joined May 2012, 333 posts, RR: 0 Reply 3, posted (9 months 4 days ago) and read 2172 times:
I believe the ex-RG birds are in a bad way and only worth scrap value from what I read on previous posts here on this subject. If US want to start PHL - PVG, they surely could do no worse than make Airbus an offer for the two ex-Kingfisher A345's sitting around in TLS gathering dust. At least they'll have crew commonality so less training expenses to start the route up.
Stitch From United States of America, joined Jul 2005, 26679 posts, RR: 83 Reply 4, posted (9 months 3 days 23 hours ago) and read 2049 times:
Quoting TC957 (Reply 3): If US want to start PHL - PVG, they surely could do no worse than make Airbus an offer for the two ex-Kingfisher A345's sitting around in TLS gathering dust.
Far better for US to make a play for someone's A340-300 for that mission.
Exactly, I don't see why they should bring in another fleet type (777) which would require training, maintenance, ect. Even if these planes were at a great price they wouldn't be worth it. The A340 would be more economical with training, and maintenance. Now if they should pick up the A340-300/500 is an other story. The A340-500 would carry more people, and may be cheaper since the A340-500 isn't that desirable.
From what people are saying about these RG 772 they also probably wouldn't make it from PHL-PVG.
Are you looking at an old picture? These are no longer there and one was scrapped but as poster #3 pointed out the other ones are alive and well-----only two 777's have been parted out and they are line #8 and line #19. Two others have been written off due to accidents so a total of only 4 777's have gone to heaven.
jfk777 From United States of America, joined Aug 2006, 7340 posts, RR: 7 Reply 8, posted (9 months 2 days 21 hours ago) and read 1178 times:
Quoting Stitch (Reply 7): Airfleets says VG's 777-200ERs went to Aeromexico and Transaero.
ILFC leased Varig to new 777-200ER with GE 90 engines, those were re-leased to AeroMEXico. RG had a very diverse and motly 777 fleet with seating from their original operators. The 777-200(no ER) referred to here were originally with BA and had huge First Class cabins. Its sad RG ended the way it did, they operated a very odd long haul fleet with 767, 747, MD-11 and 777's.
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