United777 From India, joined May 1999, 1637 posts, RR: 3 Reply 1, posted (6 years 11 months 4 days 5 hours ago) and read 805 times:
The 737 series is a good fit for all of Virgin Blue routes. I wonder if they will order the 737-900 for there proposed new flights to international cities?
Thadocta From Australia, joined Aug 2001, 392 posts, RR: 2 Reply 3, posted (6 years 11 months 4 days 5 hours ago) and read 791 times:
With all due respect, this is a no-brainer. The 737 family has all the advantages of the A320 family, and both will fit Vermin Blue's needs admirably.
Where Boeing has the advantage (as far as Vermin Blue is concerned) is that Vermin Blue already operates a large (by S.E. Asia and Pacific standards) fleet of 737NG aircraft, so they already have tech crew and engineering staff qualified in this type, and as a result training for a new type is not an issue.
That Brett Goofy could even make statements that "Airbus has a chance" is ludicrous, when you consider that they held out on moving to T2 at YSSY because of cost issues. Considering this, they WON'T introduce a completely new type with all the costs that that entails.
Singapore_Air From United Kingdom, joined Nov 2000, 13606 posts, RR: 25 Reply 5, posted (6 years 11 months 4 days 4 hours ago) and read 756 times:
EasyJet did the same thing and then went to Airbus.
Me thinks it's a way to get Airbus to offer a cheaper deal and then go for either Boeing and Airbus at a cheaper price than what they're both offering now.
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Rabenschlag From Germany, joined Oct 2000, 757 posts, RR: 0 Reply 7, posted (6 years 11 months 4 days 3 hours ago) and read 722 times:
because there is less presence of european products in australia, the european union will probably decide to dump the price of the airbuses so much that virgin blue cant resist.
Manni From Korea, joined Nov 2001, 4220 posts, RR: 24 Reply 11, posted (6 years 11 months 3 days 21 hours ago) and read 582 times:
Let's just hope, Boeing will have this order. Afterall, if airbus keeps booking sucesses like it recently did, airports wouldn't offer such a great variety for planespotters anymore in a few years.
Luisca From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 12, posted (6 years 11 months 3 days 16 hours ago) and read 486 times:
I would hardly call the Easyjet Deal a succes, its like saying that selling a new mercedes S600 for 15000 bucks and including the chofer is a succes. they gave away those planes, they arent going to earn a penney from this order.
Thadocta From Australia, joined Aug 2001, 392 posts, RR: 2 Reply 13, posted (6 years 11 months 3 days 10 hours ago) and read 402 times:
United777 - Australian Airlines is an international carrier serving routes which Qantas found to be unprofitable. They do not compete head to head with Vermin Blue.
BA319-131 From United Kingdom, joined Jan 2001, 6115 posts, RR: 53 Reply 14, posted (6 years 11 months 3 days 8 hours ago) and read 365 times:
There is something to be said for selling at cost price at the moment.
If Boeing and Airbus have to reduce production numbers due to lack of orders they have to either reduce staff or suffer from higher unit cost prices,ie the planes cost more to make.
If you can sell a large bunch(such as EZY order)then you don't have to reduce the current production levels, so the cost of each unit remains the same.
OK,you won't make as much money(if any in some cases),but at least the production lines are kept running at the optimum levels.
In addition,airlines will need spare parts,thats where you can recoup some of the money.
MELflyer From Australia, joined Jan 2005, 9 posts, RR: 10 Reply 15, posted (6 years 11 months 2 days 22 hours ago) and read 298 times:
Could this just be a ploy from Virgin to try and scare Airbus into dropping their price further? Or will Airbus not want to get down to the sort of prices they would have offered EasyJet because of the size of the order?
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