Originally Posted by
tubby linton
The Monarch B767 order was delivered but went straight on lease.Mael did keep up the technical records for them.
Just had a sleuth Tubby Linton -
Monarch had ordered 2 GE-CF6 powered B767-3T7(ER) in 1989, for delivery in May 1991 to be used on long-haul charter routes.
They would have seated 318 passengers. Their delivery coincided with the recession of the early 1990s, Monarch having already had to lease out 2 A300s, and were expecting the next 2 at the same time as the new 767s.
In the end they were sold to
EVA Air before delivery. (N601EV and N602EV)
The aircraft were never owned or leased by Monarch, the delivery slots being sold by Boeing before the aircraft were delivered in May 1991.
Is that correct >?
767-3T7ER
Incidentally, I read too that at around this time (1989) Monarch took options on A330s when it ordered it's 4 A300-600Rs only to reject the type as unsuitable a couple of years later.
Yet another change of heart came in 1997 when the Rolls Royce A330-200 was now available and Monarch did finally order the aircraft they couldn't make their mind up about for 8 years.
The
Alitalia 767-300ER's I thought Monarch had ordered were totally different aircraft, and six were leased from 1994 from AWAS Ansett Worldwide to Alitalia.
They were -33As (denoting AWAS Ansett ownership) rather than -3T7s (denoting Monarch ownership)
They were initially crewed by Ansett FD crews until October 1994.
I gather from a pal at Air 2000 they thenprovided the crews for Winter 1994/5, but did not have sufficient crews for the summer season, so
Monarch got the contract, with the aircraft being placed on the UK register in the series G-OITA/TB/TC G-OITF/TG and G-OITL for the duration.
For obvious reasons Alitalia didn't publicise the fact it was crewing it's 767s with lower paid UK/Australian crews!
These aircraft were then re registered in Italy, and crewed by Italians as TEAM Alitalia in 1996.
MONARCH AIRLINES is on the verge of taking over the contentious wet-leased Boeing 767-300ER operation
Here is the non-paywall article from July 1995 Source: Flight International
MONARCH AIRLINES is on the verge of taking over the contentious wet-leased Boeing 767-300ER operation, now provided by Ansett Worldwide Aviation Services on behalf of Alitalia.
The new deal is an extension of a long-standing agreement between Monarch and Ansett, under which the UK airline will manage and operate the aircraft on its own Air Operators' Certificate. Monarch is already providing maintenance for the first two aircraft, which have been flying several of the Italian flag carriers' transatlantic services from Rome and Milan since February.
The two aircraft, plus two more, are expected to join the UK register in late July, and will be flown with UK crews, according to Monarch's operations director, Captain Mike Poole. Another four will be added by early in 1996.
The operator change meets a European Commission directive stipulating that wet-lease of aircraft and crew from outside the European Union will only be granted on a temporary or extraordinary basis.
The aircraft are being used in a bid by loss-making Alitalia to restructure its intercontinental network with more suitable aircraft, at a time when its own crew are not qualified for ETOPS operations. The wet-lease serves as a bridge until its own crew are qualified, and towards the introduction of bigger twins in its longer-term fleet plan, says Michael Harrington, Alitalia's senior vice-president, network and fleet development.
Alitalia, which has run into difficulties with its pilot and cabin crew unions over the scheme, is planning to extend the services between Rome/Milan and Boston, Chicago, New York, Newark and Miami.