Originally Posted by
Aussie Fo
Or Qantas could just remove the oldest aircraft quietly.
Like replace the average age 25 yo F100s with 10yo A320. That’s 250 year aircraft with 100. Spread over 150 aircraft.
That brings the the average age of the fleet down by 1 year. Pretty simple.
Bring in 14 is it? 787s . Average age 2/3 years?
This airline is is run by accountants and Mathmaticians.
The fleet age is nudging (on average) 11.0 years without the aircraft for the mining work.
With respect to the replacement of F100 (poor Little Napoleon struggled to say Fokker!) the older A320 will continue to flow into 'Network'. Serves a dual purpose of hiding the stupidity of the $9.5 billion A320-321 order in 2011 for 110 aircraft. The average fleet age for the JQ fleet is around 8.0 years, so naturally for an airline equal in size of fleet to the parent, completely replace the fleet! Of course it can only generate (accounting opaqueness aside) 30% of the revenue flying nearly 50% of the ASK.
The second part of the expensive fallacy serves the adversarial IR model well. With recently established pilot bases in the West, growing Network scares the herd of Qantas pilots. Despite having enormous trouble finding 'qualified applicants' even offering substantial un-disclosed bonuses to new hires with the elusive promise of residency, the stalking horse is effective only in the minds of Fort Fumble.
Fort Fumble of course is driven by ideology and MBA cost driven accounting.
Qantas need a new fleet.