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Post by Lanka Aviator on Jan 12, 2021 12:45:54 GMT 1
In the CH-Aviation article, it was clear that the two A320s will not have the full conversion done, which would make sense. Thanks for the info. So that means Fitsair going to lease P2F freighter? Will it have large cargo door? |
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Post by ca350 on Jan 12, 2021 18:26:50 GMT 1
In the CH-Aviation article, it was clear that the two A320s will not have the full conversion done, which would make sense. Thanks for the info. So that means Fitsair going to lease P2F freighter? Will it have large cargo door? From the article in the forum link you pasted, no large cargo door. |
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Post by ca350 on Feb 3, 2021 4:24:09 GMT 1
MSN 1250 A321-211 G-NIKO -> G-POWZ Titan Airways is doing its first flight after conversion www.flightradar24.com/GNIKO/26bb03fbThis one was scheduled for delivery by the end of last year, but apparently delayed for multiple reasons. |
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Post by ca350 on Feb 13, 2021 21:02:55 GMT 1
MSN 1238 A321-211 G-DHJH Titan Airways got ferried to Miami yesterday to be leased to Amerijet. Apparently AmeriJet planned to evaluate the A321F performance for their next fleet decision, i.e. long term lease, etc.
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Post by marlibu on Feb 14, 2021 17:51:31 GMT 1
I find that a curious position. You're basically doing a test run with A321. I will assume they do not have the necessary setup to properly evaluate the frame on paper. Now i am interested to hear the evaluation a year from now...or however long the period is...
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Post by Lanka Aviator on Feb 14, 2021 22:28:25 GMT 1
So that means Fitsair going to lease P2F freighter? Will it have large cargo door? From the article in the forum link you pasted, no large cargo door. I heard Fitsair is taking delivery of first A320 end of Feb and second A320 in March. Both are on dry lease to Fitsair. Im not sure which one passenger or cargo aircraft. Im still trying to find the MSN numbers. Any update? |
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Post by ca350 on Feb 16, 2021 8:44:49 GMT 1
I find that a curious position. You're basically doing a test run with A321. I will assume they do not have the necessary setup to properly evaluate the frame on paper. Now i am interested to hear the evaluation a year from now...or however long the period is... FAA basically approved this wet leasing operation until July, which should give AmeriJet a pretty decent look and feel about the new toy. There are multiple factors that would heavily on the real-world operation experience which will be hard to derive from paper. 1. How the aircraft would operate in a light load scenario - since AmeriJet relies heavily on the one-way traffic, in that it has much greater load ex-Miami than on the way back, it'll be able to see how the aircraft and in a sense, conversion reacts to the light load, and how much fuel saving it'll have over their 767-300BDSFs on lower volume routes. 2. Loading. A321Fs, or A320 family in general, are highly praised on their container loading ability for the holds. With a real world operation experience, AmeriJet, or any potential operator in a sense, would be able to quantify the loading efficiency improvements compared to a same-class freighter - a 737-800F or a 757F. I would imagine that MIA will have the infrastructure to handle the lower-hold LD3 containers, but not entirely sure on the main deck equipment, especially the triple A containers. Also AmeriJet could try out the cargo loading system on the A321P2F (believe its Telair?) to see how well that works with an A321. 3. Aircrafts reliability. Needless to say, operators won't know the reliability in real world scenarios until they get their hands on it. Since AmeriJet gets more Express work, (believe it signs new contract with DHL and took over some routes from ABX), the dispatch reliability is key for their Express customers. So a low AOG rate will need to considered as well. |
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Post by marlibu on Feb 16, 2021 19:50:37 GMT 1
Thanks ca350. appreciate your input. |
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Post by Ravi1925 on Feb 19, 2021 7:27:33 GMT 1
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Post by ca350 on Feb 19, 2021 8:26:08 GMT 1
I wonder if the actual registration on the aircraft is still G-NIKO because of the callsign. The hexcode is still 400868 which was what G-NIKO was before as well. G-DHJH did its flight test with the old registration, and is still flying with the the old reg. Anyways, hopefully we'll get a picture of 1250 soon. |
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