Etihad/ Jet Airways lease
Jet Airways leased 3 B777-300ER's to Turkish but the lease terminates towards the end of October 2014.Etihad already have a group of 20 sets or so of locals who moved from the B737NG/A330 to Etihad and have undergone conversion training but no news whether they are operational. Jet Airways does not have all the expat B777 crew based in Istanbul, they have a few based in Mumbai. The expats have already been told that their option is to move across to Etihad ON ETIHAD TERMS, not as per Jet Airways' contract. So far only 4-6 have indicated their willingness, and initially they were told they would not need to go through the assessment process but now have been told they will have to undergo the full assessment process.BTW I doubt that the Jet Airways B777-300ER's will be able to operate to SFO non stop as they do not have a TO Bump rating, of course this depends on the time of departure but at approx 10 am the temperature is around 42-43 in the summer and performance is approx 324,000 KGS and drops by about 3,000 KGS per every degree OAT rise.There were as far as I heard 4 new Captains undergoing ground school training recently for the IST operation, long after the expats were told of the termination of the Turkish lease !!!!!!