Nice order boost for both 787 and Boeing! I guess this will progressively replace their earlier B767 and B777.
Jump to postAlways curious to know why TK has so many configuration for A330 fleet. Must be quite a headache for fleet operation and planning team. Talk about configuration headaches; how about 3 different types of engines for the 330 fleet: -RR Trent 772B-60 -CF6-80E1A3 -PW 4168A Lolx, that too. Turkish Airli...
Jump to postGA was originally going to order the 777-200ER but delayed it due to the 1997 Asian Financial Crisis, and it was converted to a 787 order, then once again to a 77W order that was eventually delivered. SQ almost ordered the MD-11 but went with A340-300s instead. Air Siam(Thai airline that got shut d...
Jump to postSri Lanka has one too. Mattala Rajapaksa International Airport, located at the southern part of the country at a place called Hambantota. IATA code: HRI. It is the second international airport in the country, after Bandaranaike International Airport in Colombo. It was a pet project of previous presi...
Jump to postMost of the later ones are now with charter airlines, like the one previously in retro colours. The earlier ones are now scrapped, or in storage for long time doubt they will see any service again. Two of the earlier ones (one with GE. The other PW) are now shuttling 787 fuselage between Japan and U...
Jump to postWas reading missing aircraft online when I found this. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varig_Flight_967
Apparently the Varig flight was never found to date. Possibly ditched into Pacific Ocean 40 years ago.
These are some I could think off. Some mentioned above, some of them order was placed but due to change in strategy or going busted, the airframe was never delivered: Continental Airlines A330/340 TWA B757-300/A318 Braniff A320 (grey area on this IMO, they did take delivery but went out of service f...
Jump to postI'll be flying TK for first time on my first visit to Turkey in April. It's FRA-IST in business on A330. I'm unsure of seats and their website is vague. Some places mention fully lie flat and other mentions angle lie flat. Can anyone confirm? Btw, it's A333 to IST and A332 return. This isn't a very...
Jump to postMaxiAir wrote:9V-STP MSN 1146 was active with Hong Kong Airlines, wfu Feb2020
So does anyone know where those extra A330s are coming from? Is SQ going to rtire their remaining A333s soon? And what about SU? They have retired three of theirs in the last few months. SU airframes seems to be going to Thai AirAsia X and Corsair. To maintain source consistency, AC might be going ...
Jump to postOh dear, this will not end up well, unless the rumoured China Government takeover turns out to be true. They have returned most of their A350, some brand new A330ceo/A350 are still looking for new owners, offloaded HK Express and some China based subsidiaries. Group wide they sold off Hilton shares,...
Jump to postZslot, nice to see here man. I have packed your stuff, may I have your address to check on the shipping fee? Please do drop me a private message. Thanks mate.
Jump to postEven with the large growth in Vietnam's economy and aviation industry, Bamboo expanding this much this soon might hurt them in the long run. Vietnam already has two large airlines (VN and VietJet) with their own niches and there might not be a room just yet for a third big airline. Bamboo probably ...
Jump to postCongratulations to B6! I am not residing in US and have been following its up and down as a fan from far away in Asia. Not wanting to start a fire, but I am curious to know was B6 the airline Boeing turned down when they were looking to buy/lease new aircraft? Neeleman knew what WN paid Boeing for ...
Jump to postAnother A320ceo off the list, the mystery behind the Private order is now solved. Airbus A320-214 9313 HS-TYW Royal Thai Air Force ferried 14feb20 TLS-HAM, regd F-WJKH for cabin config ex F-WWIC Source: https://www.skyliner-aviation.de/regdb.main?LC=nav4&page=2, https://aibfamily.flights/A320/93...
Jump to postAfter much false starts, Aero K finally took delivery of her first aircraft. ex-Virgin America A320ceo: Airbus A320-214 3135 HL8384 Aero K Airlines delivery 14feb20 GSO-SEA-ANC ex N631VA Source: https://www.skyliner-aviation.de/regdb.main?LC=nav4&page=1 They formed an engineering JV with SIAEC a...
Jump to postLots of close-but-inaccurate info on here. So... MO11 is an expert and has it mostly-correct. National took the "if we build it they will come" approach and ordered 4 combi conversions from PEMCO. PEMCO got to work, and had the earlier of the two conversion STCs out the door. Meanwhile, A...
Jump to postKLM formally apologise for "racist" toilet note. https://www.thestar.com.my/news/regional/2020/02/14/covid-19-klm-apologises-after-airline-crew039s-039racist039-toilet-note-sparks-outrage-in-south-korea "On Friday, executives with KLM bowed as they publicly apologised at a news confer...
Jump to postThe final report has been published. This is the summary https://www.flightglobal.com/safety/pod ... 17.article
The airframe 5N-DBK was flown to US for scrapping back in Dec 2019.
MH8763 - looks like it's getting ready to depart again. EDIT: Destination KL by the looks. If Malaysia government allows the passengers to fly to KL, why didn't they just allow the ship to dock there? At a Malaysian port facing the South China Sea? Or Johor Bahru? I would imagine that they all had ...
Jump to postCongratulations to B6! I am not residing in US and have been following its up and down as a fan from far away in Asia.
Not wanting to start a fire, but I am curious to know was B6 the airline Boeing turned down when they were looking to buy/lease new aircraft?
1 and 3 are the same issue; the Boeing tanker contract; the second article regards an individual procurement officer bad apple that was definitely not reflective of Boeing corporate policy. And all this involved Boeing Defense, not Boeing Commercial. Now if some of you were to tell me that Boeing d...
Jump to postI am waiting for Mr.Trump to act by slapping some huge tariffs on this crooks, at least Boeing was not so sleazy to gain customers. Airbus in my book is just as bad as Boeing, and both of them deserve to disappear, let Comac and Irkut bite their asses in Eurasia, only then they will learn how to be...
Jump to postThe fact that the crew mentioned that they need to stay "healthy" in order to provide service to all passengers is insinuating they are discriminatory in nature. Koreans are very ethnocentric like Japanese, if KLM doesn't handles them tactfully, it will lead to a PR meltdown. So far, no po...
Jump to postIs Etihad going to fly those planes, or are they NTU and will be sold/leased to another airline? In storage until EY figures out what to do with them. EY must take the delivery of these five as they are too way down the production before they cancelled the whole A350 order. Cancelling these five wi...
Jump to postJetstar Pacific is basically Vietnam Airlines as they share a fleet. Indian airlines could use that capacity, and might just cover up the VN name short-term. Also, VN relies on the A321, its workhorse, to most of China and even to Japan and Korea. That’s a lot of planes that can’t fly as they have ...
Jump to postEtihad fifth and last A350-1000 in Storage at Toulouse. https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20200211/bd6d9297c4fd435644912f98a93e4d3f.jpg Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Is Etihad going to fly those planes, or are they NTU and will be sold/leased to another airline? In storage until EY figures out ...
Jump to postNothing to be alarming about with this though due to coronavirus outbreak and recent big capacity addition by many airlines all over. One can pick up used A330/B777 and other widebody at dirt cheap price. The industry is feeling the after-effect of production ramp up over the past few years. Adding ...
Jump to postDoes anyone who what was the last flight operated by an Air Italy aircraft before the fleet was grounded? Based on FR24, last flight should be IG672 landed in MXP from SFU on 11th Feb 2020 2:14pm local time. Aircraft B737-86N EI-FNW Last A332 IG884 landed in MXP on same day 12:11pm local time from ...
Jump to postThe following airframe have been removed from services, and flown for storage/scrapping: A340-642 MSN 410 ZS-SNA MSN 417 ZS-SNB MSN 531 ZS-SND MSN 534 ZS-SNE MSN 557 ZS-SNG MSN 630 ZS-SNI A340-313X MSN 590 ZS-SXC MSN 643 ZS-SXD MSN 197 ZS-SXH Sparsely used A340-642 MSN 426 ZS-SNC MSN 547 ZS-SNF A340...
Jump to postA321-231 G-TCDZ 21 years old vintage from Air 2000, is unlucky, heading to CDT to meet her maker. Source: https://www.skyliner-aviation.de/regdb. ... av4&page=1
https://www.planespotters.net/airframe/ ... nes/3v1093
It seems closure is imminent for IG. https://www.corriere.it/cronache/20_feb ... resh_ce-cp
Jump to postDoesn't have the specific number but this is a good read: https://www.icf.com/insights/transporta ... t-analysis
Jump to postSlowest evacuation ever. Sure lets all just take our sweet time, open the overhead bins and grab all our stuff. Makes me so angry seeing people do this.. In every single evacuation you see. You never know when something can go downhill quick, fuel can catch fire in an instant and lives can be lost....
Jump to postA short run down of nation deploying airframe to rescue their citizens: Canada- HiFly A330-343E 9H-STY Brunei- Royal Brunei A320-232ceo V8-RBX Malaysia- AirAsia A320-251neo 9M-RAM UK and Ireland- Wamos B747-4H6 EC-KXN & Royal Air Force Boeing C-17 Globmaster III ZZ176 France- HiFly A380-841 9H-M...
Jump to postAre they still involved with the Cabo Verde airline? I remember they were planning on giving them some of the B757s as they were about to receive the MAXes. Pretty much still involved, they just appointed a new CEO previously with Loftleidir Icelandic as Senior vice president of sales and marketing...
Jump to postSee the relatively “new” second hand ex SQ A333 9H-TAJ sporting a new livery is in HKG today. Is the aircraft being used for evacuation flights ? FR24 had no results when I looked Coincidentally enough, I am looking at the same airframe now as we speak. The ADBS is currently tagged to 9H-STY, its o...
Jump to postA QR 748F has just departed DOH for PVG with medical supplies onboard https://twitter.com/AlexInAir/status/1226427390357917696?s=20 Kudos to Qatar Government. Malaysia has also sent 2.4 tonnes of medical supplies ranging from face masks and gloves to goggles donated by the public in an effort to he...
Jump to postOver 70 exhibitors have pulled out of the Singapore Air Show due to Coronavirus https://www.reuters.com/article/singapore-airshow-china-health/update-1-over-70-singapore-airshow-exhibitors-have-pulled-out-public-tickets-limited-organiser-idUSL4N2A902E Singapore has the 2nd most Coronavirus cases (4...
Jump to postNot sure if this is mentioned, Royal Brunei sent their A320-232ceo V8-RBX to evacuate two Bruneians caught up in Wuhan on 7th Februrary 2020. The aircraft was disinfected and remained out of service for two days before retunring to service on 9th Feb 2020, doing a regional run to Surabaya. https://w...
Jump to postUtair wanted to retire another 7x B737 classic this year. One is now retired, only 6 to retire left for this year. They have already phased out 17 B737 classic now, replaced them by leased B737 NG in part; they will need the ordered MAX urgently. And they are already in big financial trouble, somet...
Jump to postKPDX wrote:
Orient Thai B747-422 HS-STA previously United N187UA, has been scrapped at BKK recently. She spent 18 years with United before moving on with OX for 5 years in 2001, retired for good in 2016. https://www.planespotters.net/airframe/boeing-747-hs-sta-orient-thai-airlines/rqz92r Have some photo of the ...
Jump to postGod speed. Hope there is no casualty. It has been a challenging January for almost everyone, let's hope the rest of the year is more uneventful.
Jump to postWith the information about fraudulent activities to date being quite damming, I wonder if this will open Airbus to civil legal action. For instance, if Boeing can prove Airbus's illegal actions resulted in a material loss to the company, they would be well within their rights to sue for damages. In...
Jump to postIn summary: Taiwan's China Airlines- 14 A350-900 Taiwan's TransAsia Airways- An executive with Trans Asia Airways for 2 A330s and 18 A321neo United Arab Emirates's AirArabia- 44 A320ceo Nepal's Nepal Airlines- 2 A330-200ceo and 2 A320ceo Kuwait's Kuwait Airways- 25 A350 and A320neo China- Using sev...
Jump to postI am waiting for Mr.Trump to act by slapping some huge tariffs on this crooks, at least Boeing was not so sleazy to gain customers. Airbus in my book is just as bad as Boeing, and both of them deserve to disappear, let Comac and Irkut bite their asses in Eurasia, only then they will learn how to be...
Jump to postI stand corrected. AirAsia case involved two executives for F1 Team sponsorship for return on 55 Airbus A330neos unveiled in 2014 plus earlier agreements for 25 A330s, 64 A320neos and 36 A320s.
Jump to postIn summary: Commercial Contract: Malaysia's AirAsia- Two executives for F1 Team sponsorship for return on 55 Airbus A330neos unveiled in 2014 plus earlier agreements for 25 A330s, 64 A320neos and 36 A320s. Sri Lanka's SriLankan Airlines- Wife of a SriLankan Airlines executive for 6 A330-300ceo/ 4 A3...
Jump to postAltavair also owned their retired A345/346 fleet, they have been trying to sell/ lease them in the market, but no keen intererst at the moment except for European Aviation. No A340's disclosed in the Altavair portfolio, so perhaps back with Airbus or a related party. I stand corrected, Altavair bou...
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