XWB
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Post by XWB on Sept 29, 2016 21:38:18 GMT 1
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XWB
in service - 11 years
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Post by XWB on Sept 30, 2016 21:01:45 GMT 1
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Post by FabienA380 on Oct 4, 2016 8:46:20 GMT 1
Why stored?.....  |
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philidor
in service - 6 years
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Post by philidor on Oct 4, 2016 9:11:41 GMT 1
Why stored?..... Waiting for engines ? Even though CFM has officially no problem, they may still struggle to ramp up ... |
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mjoelnir
in service - 2 years
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Post by mjoelnir on Oct 4, 2016 11:43:54 GMT 1
Why stored?..... Waiting for engines ? Even though CFM has officially no problem, they may still struggle to ramp up ... Struggling to ramp up is a problem. |
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XWB
in service - 11 years
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Post by XWB on Oct 4, 2016 15:22:27 GMT 1
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burns
in Convoy en route to Toulouse
A321 NEO !!!
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Post by burns on Oct 4, 2016 17:20:46 GMT 1
I don't understand that they buy the aircraft in normal air asia colours, and then repaint it just after delivery into a special livery... Sure, they want something special as its their fist neo... but why repaint it that quick?
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mtrunz
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Post by mtrunz on Oct 4, 2016 19:50:27 GMT 1
I don't understand that they buy the aircraft in normal air asia colours, and then repaint it just after delivery into a special livery... Sure, they want something special as its their fist neo... but why repaint it that quick? Perhaps the re-paint had to be done at a location that was more convenient for AirAsia, by somebody who does their special livery etc. They can have it painted wherever they want. Having it painted at the Airbus assembly might just unnecessarily cue the paint hall of other planes that need to be painted and delivered now as well. I guess there could be numerous reasons. |
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starbucks
Roll Out Flight Line in Toulouse
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Post by starbucks on Oct 4, 2016 20:12:35 GMT 1
Probably that first one, but even the paint scheme is covered in the purchase conctract. That why we saw A321's and A330's being delivered in the old US Airways livery for a couple of months after the merger was completed
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s543
in service - 2 years
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Post by s543 on Oct 4, 2016 21:35:56 GMT 1
Probably that first one, but even the paint scheme is covered in the purchase conctract. That why we saw A321's and A330's being delivered in the old US Airways livery for a couple of months after the merger was completed Yeah - I did also wonder why simultaneously they repainted US Airways planes to new AA design while AB still delivered the original livery. Probably the contract was written and to change it would be more complicated than to repaint the plane later   As we well know to procure all the paperwork for instance for the highway takes much longer than to build it !!!! |
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