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Agent_86
14th Feb 2023, 04:36
An unknown tech issue has forced ex VA 777, VH-VPD, to divert to DRW. Was originally heading for KUL and beyond having spent the past week in BNE undergoing maintenance since leaving Wellcamp.
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Track5milefinal
14th Feb 2023, 04:53
They put B737 on the Indo flight clearance instead of a B777 :}
PoppaJo
14th Feb 2023, 05:36
Just park it in CNS with the other parked up Borghetti failures. It can replace the Belfast as the new permanent fixture.
The aircraft came out of Wellcamp about a week ago & did a couple of half hour flights out of Brissy late last week. Obviously this issue didn’t raise its head then.
Servo
14th Feb 2023, 08:08
Just park it in CNS with the other parked up Borghetti failures. It can replace the Belfast as the new permanent fixture.
And Perth. Couple of A330's still there I think.
HK144
14th Feb 2023, 08:24
Just park it in CNS with the other parked up Borghetti failures. It can replace the Belfast as the new permanent fixture.
I thought Godfrey ordered the B777s?
PoppaJo
14th Feb 2023, 08:44
That A330 in Perth is apparently on the move. Heston are still chasing engineers to get it airworthy in the next 6 weeks, something like 20 people working on the project. Just wait for all the surprise defects that start appearing after the first test flight.
Double_Clutch
14th Feb 2023, 19:32
They put B737 on the Indo flight clearance instead of a B777
Oh so close
Ascend Charlie
14th Feb 2023, 21:00
They put B737 on the Indo flight clearance instead of a B777 https://www.pprune.org/images/smilies/badteeth.gif
Once is happenstance
Twice is coincidence
Three times is enemy action. (Auric Goldfinger)
DanV2
17th Feb 2023, 06:44
An unknown tech issue has forced ex VA 777, VH-VPD, to divert to DRW. Was originally heading for KUL and beyond having spent the past week in BNE undergoing maintenance since leaving Wellcamp.
Attempted to leave DRW today, ended up being diverted back into DRW, suggesting that aircraft has issues
Just park it in CNS with the other parked up Borghetti failures. It can replace the Belfast as the new permanent fixture.
777s and Embraers are a Godfrey order from the VB Group days. The Borghetti failures are the A330s and ATRs.
smiling monkey
17th Feb 2023, 06:57
777s and Embraers are a Godfrey order from the VB Group days. The Borghetti failures are the A330s and ATRs.
Funny how Cobham, Alliance and Air North can all make money from the Embraer Ejets but Virgin couldn't?
AerocatS2A
17th Feb 2023, 07:14
I have a weird compulsion to watch Andor on Disney+.
Agent_86
17th Feb 2023, 09:49
It appears VPD is determined not to leave AUS. Airborne ex DRW today with another air return this afternoon.
PoppaJo
17th Feb 2023, 10:05
Sounds like a future Diet Coke 375ml contender in your local vending machine.
717tech
17th Feb 2023, 23:15
Funny how Cobham, Alliance and Air North can all make money from the Embraer Ejets but Virgin couldn't?
The E-Jet Family was almost brand new when VA acquired theirs. The type has been around for almost 20yrs now, so presumably the prices have dropped?
Snakecharma
18th Feb 2023, 00:32
The ejet was the only thing that got VB through the GFC.
The ATR was a bad decision made for dubious reasons particularly as VB owned most of the ejet except for the last few.
interestingly Singapore/scoot have just ordered e2’s.
I personally think the 330 and atr were, at its core, a matter of the Italian hairdryer feeling like it wasn’t his idea so they were no good.
domt get me wrong the 330 is a good jet but not at the price they paid for them and same for the ATR. They paid more for the ATR’s than they did for the ejets.
just dumb
Global Aviator
18th Feb 2023, 02:01
The E-Jet Family was almost brand new when VA acquired theirs. The type has been around for almost 20yrs now, so presumably the prices have dropped?
Yep I’m sure it’s in the posts of prune but Alliance paid I think from memory around 3 mil each for the bulk buy from a US airline.
They paid more for the ATR’s than they did for the ejets.
The whole Skywest/Virgin deal was a certain Skywest major shareholder's Alan Bond moment. He did the deal for XR to operate the ATRs, leased on ridiculous rates from his leasing company, then sold Skywest to Virgin. And in the end Virgin had to put the ATRs on their AOC anyway after a few little mishaps that may have become big mishaps.
Snakecharma
20th Feb 2023, 03:06
Ebt,
you nailed it..
Kerry Packer would be laughing his arse off
Icarus2001
21st Feb 2023, 01:13
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Stubborn sucker.
Mr Google Head
21st Feb 2023, 10:06
Sounds like a future Diet Coke 375ml contender in your local vending machine.
Ouch 😅
DanV2
31st Mar 2023, 04:42
Take 2 for VPD: DRW to MCT (and assumedly onward to DOH)
https://flightaware.com/live/flight/VHVPD
Rumours going around that QR bought the 4x ex-VA owned 77Ws directly off the lessors (who in turn bought them off VA's mortgagers during the bankruptcy process) and will eventually part out the ex-VA 77Ws as spare parts for QR's own legacy 77W fleet.
Ken Borough
31st Mar 2023, 06:27
At least one of them is running around in an all white livery operating QR scheduled services.
Goat Whisperer
31st Mar 2023, 06:31
Rumours going around that QR bought the 4x ex-VA owned 77Ws directly off the lessors (who in turn bought them off VA's mortgagers during the bankruptcy process) and will eventually part out the ex-VA 77Ws as spare parts for QR's own legacy 77W fleet.
A quick search would indicate that 2 of those are busy operating for QR. A7-BOE and BOF were VPE and VPF respectively.
DanV2
31st Mar 2023, 06:45
At least one of them is running around in an all white livery operating QR scheduled services.
The other ex-VA unit was reported to be in a hybrid white livery with QR decals on it.
Both 77Ws reportedly still in VA config, including the "EconomyX" branding and the VA 'branded' bar, so I can't see the ex-VA units (or the ex-CX 77Ws for that matter) being long term 'active' members of the QR 77W fleet.
So it wouldn't surprise me if the rumoured acquisition as a 'spare parts machine is the case.
DanV2
31st Mar 2023, 06:47
delete *duplicate*
PoppaJo
31st Mar 2023, 07:25
Next up is the Borghetti Jet out west. I see Heston are still trying to find Engineers to work on that project, all going to plan they reckon she will be out in May :rolleyes:
Would be lucky to get that thing defect free by Xmas. She won’t be pretty. Just send the bill to John. Wipe every last cent that guy has, should be in prison.
Led Zep
31st Mar 2023, 11:54
Next up is the Borghetti Jet out west. I see Heston are still trying to find Engineers to work on that project, all going to plan they reckon she will be out in May :rolleyes:
Would be lucky to get that thing defect free by Xmas. She won’t be pretty. Just send the bill to John. Wipe every last cent that guy has, should be in prison.
Aw, it's become a fixture of the West. Just plonk it on a plinth and make it a gate guard already. :ok:
ex-VA VH-VPD listed in the queue for part-out/spare parts scrap in ENS (EHTW).
https://www.skyliner-aviation.de/regdb.main?LC=nav4&page=4