tphuang wrote:FlyinRabbit88 wrote:Anyone else heard that Jetblue has recently bought at least 4 (ex Thomas Cook) A321s ?
not sure if it is from TCX, but they did say in the earnings slide that they bought some used aircraft to mitigate the A321NEO delays.
Be interested if that is a material enough transaction to be officially disclosed. I am guessing not as there are no SEC filings relating to it apart from the comment in the earnings slide as you note.
Looking at the ex TCX fleet on planefleets.net, it does appear there are at least 4 owned by ALC that have not officially gone anywhere yet and were last reported as stored in England. Could be those, they are roughly 5 years old, but are kitted out with between 214 and 220 seats, which is obviously more than Mint 159 and Core 200.
The 4 i am thinking of
G-TCVA/B/C and D are also ironically ex Monarch birds too
, sad history for those 4. i maybe wrong, but 5 year old aircraft would be in the right spot for B6 to keep their fleet age down, but do seem the most likely of the options. I am sure folks more in the know could confirm or deny this...