Hello A300Man,
Keep the news coming and just ignore what Ken is saying. On the subject of leasing in SriLankan equipment that sounds strange since UL are actually short of aircraft and are looking for more. If they lease out one of their planes it would mean a drstic reduction in their schedules especially since they just recently added a few routes and are in the process of introducing more flights to India and Europe. Currently the only A330 capacity I think is available is from BD, EI, Khalifa and ex-SN.
I think from the ones above BD's A330-200 would work best for QR because of the seating and availability. EI, Khalifa and the ex-SN aircraft are A330-300 that would mean a capacity jump over the A330-200.
I have also heard the same on the delivery of the A330-200's and I have also heard that at least one of the next batch of A330-200's will be in a 2-class layout. Can anyone confirm that?
UTRF,
I was told the same regarding the registrations of the A300-600R from the member "mafibacon". Do you know anything on the subject of the retirement of the A300-600R? I have been told by QR that by the end of 2005 all A300-600R's (PAX) would've left the fleet. QR would need to order more widebodies to take the roles of the AB6.
Thank you both for the information and please keep us updated in the future
