Air Tanker
What is the global down turn in aviation doing to Air Tankers bottom line, how are they managing without any income from the unused assets of the RAF A330 fleet?
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Originally Posted by haltonapp
(Post 10801266)
What is the global down turn in aviation doing to Air Tankers bottom line, how are they managing without any income from the unused assets of the RAF A330 fleet?
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They have furloughed some folks I believe.
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I know that many are working from home but I haven’t heard of any furloughs to date. I shall quietly enquire...
I stand corrected! - about 70 have been furloughed. |
According to other forums, Voyagers have been up almost every day for replenishment of aircraft called out on QRAs.
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And they made a run down to the Falklands in record time: https://www.airtanker.co.uk/media/ne...-flight-record
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Originally Posted by Jhieminga
(Post 10805118)
And they made a run down to the Falklands in record time: https://www.airtanker.co.uk/media/ne...-flight-record
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Originally Posted by Chris Kebab
(Post 10805365)
Impressive; but intrigued why they never did this before, does it impose additional weight limits, pax numbers etc?
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What did the mod to the aircraft involve?
Tanks? |
Originally Posted by Saintsman
(Post 10809556)
What did the mod to the aircraft involve?
Tanks? |
According to the article the mod was provision of proper crew rest facilities to allow the 2 crews to operate the route direct between them.
I would be interested to hear what payload the ac managed. |
Originally Posted by vascodegama
(Post 10809578)
According to the article the mod was provision of proper crew rest facilities to allow the 2 crews to operate the route direct between them.
I would be interested to hear what payload the ac managed. |
Originally Posted by LS8C1
(Post 10809565)
Probably the fact that the only personnel moves are those that are essential, therefore not as many people and associated luggage, thus more available space for fuel on a lighter aircraft load.
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Originally Posted by salad-dodger
(Post 10809645)
Hmmm, interesting. More available space for fuel, where? Fill a few empty seats with some jerrycans?
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No more fuel. If you recall not too long ago, a Voyager flew direct to Buenos Aires. The limitation is crew duty, and the provision of crew rest facilities has enabled carriage of additional crew members to legally provide extra duty time.
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Where would the rest facilities be placed. I know on BA dreamliners there are 2 crew rest areas. 1 just behind the cockpit above the galley and 1 in the fin area for cabin crew.
Were these A330 fitted similarly? |
There are least two crew rest options for the A330-200.
A flight crew rest module from Collins Aerospace that fits behind the flight deck. A lower deck combined Flight and Cabin crew rest module that occupies forward hold space. |
Didn’t BA operate a few non stop charters to / from the Falklands using the 747 ?
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Was the previous record held by a 10 Sqn VC10 and did Geoff Barrell do the AAR brackets for them? He was one of the best at the pilot's sport of Kings.
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Originally Posted by stilton
(Post 10810190)
Didn’t BA operate a few non stop charters to / from the Falklands using the 747 ?
As for these days of course it as all changed - the modern big twins are often routinely operating sectors of the sort of length needed to get from the UK to the Falklands, but you need to make sure, as has been stated, that the crew rest has been sorted out... |
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