Re: Rumour : a350 ahead in 6E widebody race

If they were able to increase the limit to 480 for the A351 I'd say they can easily get the A359 certified for 480 since it uses the same exit config and similar internal layout. Exit limits for the A350 haven't changed in case of the A350-900. So no matter what, it's still going to remain at 440 s...

Re: Malaysia Airlines News and Discussion - 2024

Mean while, MH introduce flight to maldives. https://malaysia.news.yahoo.com/malaysia-airlines-introduces-routes-maldives-055318915.html? They flew to Male previously, so this would be a reintroduction - I take it that the flights were cancelled during the pandemic? It was dropped in 2015, before t...

Re: Rumour : a350 ahead in 6E widebody race

As of February 2024, the A350 backlog stands: A350-900 - 412 A350-1000 - 190 A350F - 50 Total - 652 If production rate is 9 per month, 9 x 11.5 months= 104 (rounding) 652/104 = 6.26 years If production rate is 10 per month, 10 x 11.5 months= 115 (rounding) 652/115 = 5.43 years If production rate is ...

Re: Rumour : a350 ahead in 6E widebody race

I thought that the A330neo was considered and not the A350. One can only guess so, they have been playing with the waters for some time and the media has reported a few times "near order", but nothing come to fruition. IndiGo's widebody order is something I will only believe when the dott...

Re: Updated: JAL orders 21 x A350 and 10 x 787

Yes the order book and available delivery slots for the Max and A321 stretch till the second coming of Christ but what I was trying to say, probably quite poorly, is that perhaps the airlines at this point and for the foreseeable future believe Airbus' delivery promises more than Boeings Perhaps th...

Re: Updated: Korean Air orders 6 x A350-900 and 27 x A350-1000

Assuming the long-mooted merger finally goes ahead. It's possible the merger won't happen though, right? ... Unless KE and Airbus has reached an agreement to cancel the remaining OZ's order The merger hasn't happened. OZ is still independent. The merger will definitely happen, one way or the other....

Re: Updated: Korean Air orders 6 x A350-900 and 27 x A350-1000

Given as how the early rumours were for an order of 20 for Korean, I wonder if we will see the cancellation of some of the Asiana A350 undelivered backlog of 15 aircraft as a result of this larger-than-speculated order or if it is indeed cumulative. Assuming the long-mooted merger finally goes ahea...

Re: Korean may order around 20 a350s

https://www.airlineratings.com/news/industry-news/korean-air-orders-33-airbus-a350s/ Korean Air will sign a contract with Airbus for the procurement of 33 state-of-the-art A350 family aircraft. The deal, which includes 27 A350-1000s and six A350-900s, is valued at USD 13.7 billion. The airline said...

Re: Japan Airlines is nearing an order for wide-body jets

Aircraft delivery for the next five years Woah, they are introducing A321neo to replace some of the domestic B767-300ERs. I guess these are those B767-300ER with C24Y175, exactly nine in active fleet now. This will leave JAL with another 16 B767-300ERs which may require replacement in the near futu...

Re: Korean may order around 20 a350s

https://www.airlineratings.com/news/industry-news/korean-air-orders-33-airbus-a350s/ Korean Air will sign a contract with Airbus for the procurement of 33 state-of-the-art A350 family aircraft. The deal, which includes 27 A350-1000s and six A350-900s, is valued at USD 13.7 billion. The airline said...

Re: Japan Airlines is nearing an order for wide-body jets

Not a huge order per se, but that's still quite a coup for Airbus. A split of widebodies is no surprise due to their current fleet make-up. but I am surprised to see A321neos. I imagine these A359s will be long haul-configured? Would it be reasonable to assume that in more normal times, those A321s...

Re: Korean may order around 20 a350s

21 A359 + 6 A359 + 27 A35K= 54 A350 in less than two hours the day break for our Eurozone friends.

Re: Japan Airlines is nearing an order for wide-body jets

How popular do we think the 767s will be on the second hand passenger market? Excellent Japanese maintenance/engineering must make them an attractive option, however the flight circles not so much? They will be very popular with freighter conversion with the way how the Japanese take care of them. ...

Re: Japan Airlines is nearing an order for wide-body jets

MrHMSH wrote:

Not a huge order per se, but that's still quite a coup for Airbus. A split of widebodies is no surprise due to their current fleet make-up. but I am surprised to see A321neos. I imagine these A359s will be long haul-configured?

Re: Japan Airlines is nearing an order for wide-body jets

Aircraft delivery for the next five years https://i.ibb.co/RCvv1tH/JAL.jpg Woah, they are introducing A321neo to replace some of the domestic B767-300ERs. I guess these are those B767-300ER with C24Y175, exactly nine in active fleet now. This will leave JAL with another 16 B767-300ERs which may req...

Re: Japan Airlines is nearing an order for wide-body jets

This should be the second batch of B787-8/9s to replace the current 25 B767-300ER, the oldest being 22 years old, youngest 12 years old. My guess is 30 B787-8/9 and 20+1 A350-900. leaving five options for the future. They will take delivery of seven A350-1000, not mention when the last two A350-900 ...

Re: Boeing 747-400 Movements / Write-Off / Retirements / Scrapping - 2024

how many SQ have in their fleet and when they are due to retire ? Singapore Airlines Cargo B747-400F fleet information 1. 9V-SFI 28027 / 1256 2. 9V-SFK 28030 / 1298 3. 9V-SFM 32898 / 1333 4. 9V-SFN 32899 / 1342 5. 9V-SFO 32900 / 1349 6. 9V-SFQ 32901 / 1369 7. 9V-SFP 32902 / 1364 The oldest being 24...

Re: Boeing 747-400 Movements / Write-Off / Retirements / Scrapping - 2024

Planespotters mentions the two ex- China Cargo 744ERF, B-2425 (ln.1377) and B-2426 (ln. 1392), have been sold or leased to SF Airlines. At the same time, they will retire 2002-vintage MSN 32803/ 1306 B747-41BF B-2473, previously with China Southern Airlines. It is PW-powered, unlike the rest of the...

Re: Cathay Pacific News and Discussion - 2024

More fleet movement was released yesterday, some shared by zakuivcustom earlier: The airline will return three B777-300ERs to lessors this year, two A330-300s and two B777-300ERs will be handed back in 2025, as will two A330-300s and four B777-300ERs in 2026. In addition, two A350-900s have leases e...

Re: Australian Aviation - March 2024

A long time lurker on this thread, I have a question. The Malaysia Airport Berhad, the main operator of KLIA, is reporting they are courting Qantas in resuming SYD-KUL with rumoured 4x weekly flight in 2025. Anyone have heard anything about this? Qantas suspended its flights to Kuala Lumpur in 1999...

Re: Boeing 747-400 Movements / Write-Off / Retirements / Scrapping - 2024

https://airwaysmag.com/china-airlines-sells-five-boeing-747f/ Do we know what 5 have been sold by China Airlines? I believe those five are the oldest ones based on various news sources: https://www.avionews.it/item/1257229-china-airlines-sells-five-cargo-planes.html https://www.aircargonews.net/air...

Re: Boeing 747-400 Movements / Write-Off / Retirements / Scrapping - 2024

https://airwaysmag.com/china-airlines-sells-five-boeing-747f/ Do we know what 5 have been sold by China Airlines? I believe those five are the oldest ones based on various news sources: https://www.avionews.it/item/1257229-china-airlines-sells-five-cargo-planes.html https://www.aircargonews.net/air...

Re: Korean may order around 20 a350s

[...]On the other hand, I would like to see a Korean Air that shows the diversity of the fleet and conveys the strength and discipline of Korea.[...] They did an excellent job by performing a complete 180° u-turn. Back in history Korean Air had the infamous reputation of being one of the world's mo...

Re: Korean may order around 20 a350s

Where has the 777-9 come from? B777-9 is a projection. A blue chip airline like KE will definitely buy B77X family some time down the line. Agree with you, no sure which A350 they are going for (therefore I did not include in the list), hopefully the A35K A side note, through KE's mother company Ha...

Re: Airbus and Boeing Orders - 2024

Silk Way West signs for another 777F (Behind paywall) https://www.flightglobal.com/airlines/silk-way-west-signs-for-another-777f/157406.article?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=Sendible&utm_campaign=RSS&fbclid=IwAR3JKNMEoX5N0x-k66f-GBSjuzcJEGsFEl6tf4FEt8GnroTql9eAX0z2RXo https://www.aircargowee...

Re: Boeing 747-400 Movements / Write-Off / Retirements / Scrapping - 2024

I guess there is no reason to fly PAX 747s to US from Taiwan only for scrapping. Is Jetonex still in the picture? They have a number of ex-China Airlines 747s that are stored for scrapping. Jetonex did same for a few ex-KLM 747 combis and a Dubai Air Wing VIP combi. Some big swings and misses. http...

Re: Airbus A350 Production / Deliveries - 2024

shuck wrote:

Is it still possible to access the Airbus Orders & Deliveries spreadsheet for 2020.

Thanks

Re: Korean may order around 20 a350s

I saw a youtube video, so I know it is true, that KE are not happy with the A220. Maybe they can trade those in for the A350s, or offset with some sort of buyback scheme. Jokes aside, if this is a pure Airbus win, I hope the good folks at Boeing understand that their reputation has taken a huge hit...

Re: Korean may order around 20 a350s

I put together the below KE and OZ fleet information, based on the information available online and put in some comment in the fleet removal part. Any error and omission is much regretted. https://i.ibb.co/NxwmB4k/Screenshot-2024-03-18-164905.png Notes: 1. KE has about 59 aircraft scheduled for ret...

Re: Vietnam Airlines (VN) News and Discussion - 2024

While I don’t think it will happen (as it has not happened yet despite the desire being there), I would love to see AirAsia set up in Vietnam. In my experience AK and FD run reliable operations, albeit working under very different conditions at their respective home bases. The main issue will be Ai...

Re: Vietnam Airlines (VN) News and Discussion - 2024

Let's hope BL stays dead and buried for good this time. Lost count on how many times they have revived, bought, sold and rebranded that brand! Pacific Airlines/ RegionAir RIP. 1991-2024 With VN plans to be no more BL's major stakeholder (holding <50%) after the restructuring (new investors come in ...

Re: Korean may order around 20 a350s

I put together the below KE and OZ fleet information, based on the information available online and put in some comment in the fleet removal part. Any error and omission is much regretted. https://i.ibb.co/NxwmB4k/Screenshot-2024-03-18-164905.png Notes: 1. KE has about 59 aircraft scheduled for ret...

Re: Vietnam Airlines (VN) News and Discussion - 2024

https://thanhnien.vn/cuc-soc-mot-hang-hang-khong-viet-nam-tra-toan-bo-may-bay-de-xoa-no-185240318144109873.htm BL confirmed that it has returned its whole fleet. Its homepage has been shut down, no BL-branded tickets are selling as well as no flight is flying with the BL code. It also states that i...

Re: Korean may order around 20 a350s

I put together the below KE and OZ fleet information, based on the information available online and put in some comment in the fleet removal part. Any error and omission is much regretted. https://i.ibb.co/NxwmB4k/Screenshot-2024-03-18-164905.png Notes: 1. KE has about 59 aircraft scheduled for reti...

Re: Taiwan Aviation - 2024

CI said last year they would lease at least one A350, possibly more. Ex SAS SE-RSA (ln 358 delivered Nov 2019) arrived TPE Dec 30 as OE-IEA, supposedly to be registered B18919 per Planespotters. On Flightradar24 its transponder had activity Jan 11 and none since. Seems its been parked for 10 weeks ...

Re: Air Cargo Discussion - 2024

I noticed that another 747-83QF is again on the market, perhaps the next (#31) 747-8F for UPS. - L/N 1502, C/N 60118, F/F 12 Juli 2014, original ordered by Silk Way West, ntu, delivered to AirBridgeCargo (lsd) at 13 Nov 2015, VQ-BFE (lessor Guggenheim Aviation Partners until Oct 2016, leased from A...

Re: Boeing 787 Movements / Write-Off / Retirements / Scrapping - 2024

Now confirmed ln17 is being parted out by CAVU Aerospace Confirmed as per this article: https://aviationweek.com/mro/aircraft-propulsion/first-ge-powered-787-acquired-part-out This makes it the fourth B787 to be scrapped. What a sad ending for a young bird. I bet it has less than 100 hours on her.

Re: Cathay Pacific News and Discussion - 2024

It is worth noting it has always been in CX's DNA to keep their fleet for very long time (literally fly until their wings fall apart, I mean on ground, God forbids!) unlike how SQ practices in getting rid of their fleet once the airframe hits 12th year mark. The mid-sized replacement aircraft order ...

Re: Malaysia Airlines News and Discussion - 2024

That's very interesting info about the A332. Good context to understand the plan. So there is hope that the A339 will take over the KUL-AKL route once sufficient units are in hand. If that happens I will switch back to MH from my current use of SQ and CX. I hadn't heard about AMS and CDG. This is i...

Re: Qantas Group Fleet - 2024

Hi all, I have a question but I hope I don't ruffle some feathers here. Please go easy. Given the massive Qantas and its subsidiary fleet and there are many smaller airlines around the Pacific island region, why does Qantas send off its aircraft to the Middle East and The Philippines for heavy check...

Re: Malaysia Airlines News and Discussion - 2024

Any articles regarding the three new routes, and maybe, will Los Angeles ever join the network expansion for maybe 2027 or 2028? Why do they seem not as committed on that route as they are to Paris and Amsterdam? The three planned routes are mentioned in the townhall earlier this year. Malaysia Air...

Re: Venezuelan airline 747 cargo flight sets off alarms in Argentina

The saga continues: Venezuela is no longer allowing aircraft registered in Argentina (LV-xxx) to enter their airspace. According to a source in Aerolineas, this is "obviously" related to YV3531. Argentina's foreign ministry has summoned the Venezuelan ambassador. https://www.infobae.com/e...

Re: Air Transat A330 replacement

Azul recently got a pair of used A330 NEO's off Air Asia. Perhaps Transat can do the same with some smaller carrier that wants to dump them? Air Belgium, Air Senegal, Garuda, Lion? After all they got some A332's off Mexicana when they went under. Of course there is plenty left on the market in term...

Re: 4 airlines on TPE SEA

Something I have never understood with airlines. There is a city like Las Vegas, that also has a fairly large Asian population on the west "coast". There is only one Asian carrier there (KAL) operating to Seoul. Why do airlines choose to serve LAX, SFO and SEA with redundant amounts of fl...

Re: Air Transat A330 replacement

Transat has all but abandoned the west, they are a YUL and YYZ airline at this point and YYC/YVR don't even factor into the discussion. Door limited to 420 pax, IIRC Max capacity is 460 according to Airbus website. The question I answered was for 789 max capacity, a figure I assume that is not list...

Re: Malaysia Airlines News and Discussion - 2024

Wow, I’m genuinely shocked MH is bringing back CDG and AMS given they were bleeding money on those routes. AMS was infamous for being mainly tourists, as a certain tragedy in 2014 exposed… I’m also surprised MH is refurbishing the A333/A350, given they virtually left their B777’s untouched between ...

Re: Australian Aviation - March 2024

QF originally invited and escorted MH into Oneworld to do what you suggested with MH from KUL but it never went anywhere and QF doesn't appear to have any interest in operating its own flights to the Malaysian capital. I had the same thought. It was Qantas that formally invited Malaysia Airlines to...

Re: Australian Aviation - March 2024

On the whole QF's Asian foray was interesting but as you say, ineffective (and possibly embarrassing). They're not the big fish in the small pond when they go to Asia and it would have required a different mindset, one that they probably couldn't adjust to. Didn't they try to strong-arm Hong Kong i...

Re: Boeing 787 Production / Deliveries - 2024

LN998 is back at Everett after repainting in Portland. We should know soon whether it will go to China Southern or to Xiamen (which is anyway majority owned by CZ). According to Planespottersnet LN 998, LN 1020 and LN 1050 are all destined for Xiamen Airlines. https://www.planespotters.net/airline/...

Re: Air Transat A330 replacement

1106/1116 are headed to RAM. 1106 just ferried to PAE and is going in for rework, and I’m assuming paint…. Ahh - didn't think about NTUs. And missed 450. On the NTUs - I thought 1106/1116 going to RAM, 1036/1046 to LH, and 688 to LY. Thank you for the updates, much appreciated. This will leave us w...