Ex VA 777 diverting to DRW
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Ex VA 777 diverting to DRW
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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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.
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.
They put B737 on the Indo flight clearance instead of a B777 
Twice is coincidence
Three times is enemy action. (Auric Goldfinger)
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Sounds like a future Diet Coke 375ml contender in your local vending machine.
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
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
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.
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.
