Originally Posted by
VictorWatcher
can't really understand why we haven't picked up a couple of 2nd hand A-340s, cheap as chips and do we really care about the fuel? Common type rating with the mtrr a330s so same pilots could fly them. Four engines so that can do the one engine out and on we still go thing. Plus in the spirit of Brexit they are european.
It seems that the suits insist on a VIP interior.
https://www.flightglobal.com/news/ar...oyager-427048/
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