Originally Posted by
castleford tiger
Persistant rumours about the 3 x ex thomas cook A330's parked up at Manchester. These are high hours low cycle airframes with unusually toilets built into the cargo area. Ideally suited for short haul., in their twighlight years. Old machines but still usuable. Perhaps not this season, but possibly for next.
Anyone help on this?
Tiger
Interesting comment but have no inside knowledge of any possible purchase but offer the following observations.
The three A330-200s came with the take over of My Travel and owned by TCX.
These TCX assets must now be a serious liability, as parking fees at Manchester airport cannot be cheap.
Worldwide there are 30 or so A330-200s of similar age that are stored and presumably available for purchase.
Considering that JET2 is operating A330-200s on summer leasing, it would be within reason to expect that JET2 are receiving offers to take over the airframes at virtually any purchase price.