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Jordanian King A340-2/600

liftsifter From United States of America, joined Feb 2008, 237 posts, RR: 0
Posted (5 months 2 weeks 5 days 12 hours ago) and read 5455 times:

Does anyone know which plane is currently in use for the HK of Jordan? I know the king was using an A318 for some time, and I wanted to know if he's ever even used the A340-600. In the past he was using an A340-200.

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KaiTak747 From Switzerland, joined Aug 2012, 145 posts, RR: 0
Reply 1, posted (5 months 2 weeks 4 days 13 hours ago) and read 4443 times:

If I remember correctly King Abdullah II sold the A340-600 during the Arab Spring. He clearly didn't want to be seen spending hundreds of millions of dollars on a new jet during a period of anti-monarchist and civil unrest in the region. A clever move in my opinion. Although it looks beautiful and would be great for spotting it is very excessive considering the Jordanian Government already have an A318CJ and A340-200!

yowza From Canada, joined Jul 2005, 4781 posts, RR: 17
Reply 2, posted (5 months 2 weeks 4 days 12 hours ago) and read 4356 times:

If I'm not mistaken I believe King Abdullah also has the world's only private blackhawk helicopter which he flies himself.

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BasilFawlty From Netherlands, joined Jun 2009, 1254 posts, RR: 1
Reply 3, posted (5 months 2 weeks 4 days 12 hours ago) and read 4273 times:

Quoting KaiTak747 (Reply 1):
Although it looks beautiful and would be great for spotting it is very excessive considering the Jordanian Government already have an A318CJ and A340-200

The A340-200 was sold three years ago, so there's only the A318. I would not be surprised if they take the A340-600 anyway within a few years.

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KaiTak747 From Switzerland, joined Aug 2012, 145 posts, RR: 0
Reply 4, posted (5 months 2 weeks 4 days 11 hours ago) and read 4162 times:

Quoting BasilFawlty (Reply 3):
The A340-200 was sold three years ago, so there's only the A318

My mistake - still, an A318 should do the job. If they need more seats than that they could always charter an A340-200 or A330 from RJ.

N503JB From Hong Kong, joined May 2000, 300 posts, RR: 2
Reply 5, posted (5 months 2 weeks 4 days 11 hours ago) and read 4124 times:

Quoting KaiTak747 (Reply 4):
My mistake - still, an A318 should do the job. If they need more seats than that they could always charter an A340-200 or A330 from RJ.

King Abdullah II and the royal family very rare to use RJ fleet and normally charter by private jet from the gulf when extra capacity is need. Only the accompany of the royal court would take RJ flight.

Example is last visit for the prince to HKG was by QR excecutive jet.

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fauzi From Brunei, joined Jul 2005, 199 posts, RR: 0
Reply 6, posted (5 months 2 weeks 4 days 10 hours ago) and read 4056 times:

Quoting yowza (Reply 2):
If I'm not mistaken I believe King Abdullah also has the world's only private blackhawk helicopter which he flies himself.

YOWza

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ptrjong From Netherlands, joined Mar 2005, 3767 posts, RR: 20
Reply 7, posted (5 months 2 weeks 3 days 5 hours ago) and read 3783 times:

Quoting KaiTak747 (Reply 1):
A clever move in my opinion.

Only made possible by the stupid move of buying it in the first place.

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Geezer From United States of America, joined Aug 2010, 1413 posts, RR: 1
Reply 8, posted (5 months 2 weeks 2 days 9 hours ago) and read 3691 times:

Quoting yowza (Reply 2):
If I'm not mistaken I believe King Abdullah also has the world's only private blackhawk helicopter which he flies himself.

I hadn't heard about the Blackhawk, but I did see a photo of him riding his brand new Harley-Davidson a year or so ago.

Charley

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zkojq From New Zealand, joined Sep 2011, 776 posts, RR: 1
Reply 9, posted (5 months 1 week 2 days 17 hours ago) and read 3299 times:

Quoting KaiTak747 (Reply 1):
He clearly didn't want to be seen spending hundreds of millions of dollars on a new jet during a period of anti-monarchist and civil unrest in the region.

The irony being that the Jordanian Royal Family's finances are significantly more separated from that of the state than most other mid-east states. The A340-600 is registered VP-CDD (used to be JY-ASX). I believe it is currently stored in Basel.

Quoting BasilFawlty (Reply 3):
so there's only the A318.

The A318 is VQ-BDD

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fridgmus From United States of America, joined Oct 2006, 1383 posts, RR: 11
Reply 10, posted (5 months 6 days 4 hours ago) and read 2966 times: