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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They put B737 on the Indo flight clearance instead of a B777 :}

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.

And Perth. Couple of A330's still there I think.

I thought Godfrey ordered the B777s?

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.

Oh so close

Once is happenstance
Twice is coincidence
​​​​​​​Three times is enemy action. (Auric Goldfinger)

Attempted to leave DRW today, ended up being diverted back into DRW, suggesting that aircraft has issues

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?

I have a weird compulsion to watch Andor on Disney+.

It appears VPD is determined not to leave AUS. Airborne ex DRW today with another air return this afternoon.

Sounds like a future Diet Coke 375ml contender in your local vending machine.

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?

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

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.

Ebt,

you nailed it..

Kerry Packer would be laughing his arse off

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Stubborn sucker.