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Post by kronus on Jun 24, 2015 17:39:53 GMT 1
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Post by Baroque on Jun 25, 2015 0:42:15 GMT 1
This is a sensible decision by TAP. For one thing, they don't need the excessive range and performance of the A350-900. They were one of the original customers of the A330 based A350 anyways and only converted it to the XWB after Airbus's model revamp. So, Airbus can probably re-sell those A350 slots for higher than the discounted prices they would have had to offer TAP to have them stick to the XWB. Win-win solution. Does anyone know when TAP was scheduled to receive their A350s? I thought it was going to be within the next couple of years. Perhaps, some near term slots are in need of some shuffling? And good to see the A320LR gathering more interest.
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Post by sciing on Jun 25, 2015 5:10:26 GMT 1
1st TAP is MSN90, so delivery was likely planned for the 1st half of 2017.
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Post by kronus on Jun 25, 2015 6:26:21 GMT 1
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Post by Jkkw on Sept 10, 2015 12:27:18 GMT 1
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Post by limoncello on Feb 16, 2016 12:30:25 GMT 1
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Post by bmw801 on Mar 1, 2016 12:54:15 GMT 1
According to air-cosmos.com Garuda is behind this new order from 28. Jan 2016.
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Post by kronus on Oct 12, 2016 16:14:07 GMT 1
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Post by philidor on Oct 12, 2016 16:32:10 GMT 1
Kronus, can you read behind the paywall ? The headline is about ending widebody operations, not about deferments.
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Post by kronus on Oct 12, 2016 16:42:27 GMT 1
Full text of TransAsia article: "TransAsia Airways (GE, Taipei Sung Shan) is set to end widebody operations at the end of this year the chairman of TransAsia Lin Ming-sheng has disclosed.
Outlining progress made so far under the carrier's restructuring plan, Lin said placements for all four aircraft had been found with two to be disposed of during the current quarter while two would go during the first quarter of next year.
The A330s are currently used on flights to the Japanese cities of Asahikawa, Hakodate, and Sapporo Chitose as well as Shanghai Pudong in China. According to Lin, a strong Yen along with increased competition on the routes has forced a decline in demand.
The loss in widebody capacity has also forced the Taiwanese carrier to defer its plans to serve the United States and its associated territories. According to the China Times, with its Foreign Air Carrier Permit (FACP) in hand, TransAsia had intended to offer charter flights to Guam Int'l and Tinian, Northern Mariana Islands, from early next year. Those plans have, for the meantime, now been scrapped.
Lin said airline executives have also entered into talks with Airbus Industrie (AIB, Toulouse Blagnac) over the planned deferral of four A330-800neo, ordered back in December 2014. The aircraft were to have begun arriving from 2018 onwards. No revised delivery timeframes were then revealed.
Once gone, TransAsia's fleet will consist of only narrowbody and regional aircraft which, at present, consists of seven A320-200s, seven A321-100/-200s, and seven ATR72-600s.
The cost savings generated by the removal of the widebody aircraft, coupled with closure of LCC V air (ZV, Taipei Taoyuan), is expected to turn TransAsia Airways profitable by the early next year.
Lin also noted that his airline has begun to step out of the shadow of the fatal crashes of July 2014 and in February 2015, which claimed ninety-one lives. Thus far, he said, the company has fulfilled sixty-seven of the recommendations as specified by the US-based Flight Safety Foundation, and has been incident-free for the past eighteen months under the Civil Aeronautics Administration's (CAA) supervision."
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