A340 for sale.
 

Does anyone fancy buying an ex VS A340, fully equipped still with all interior, 10 years old.

All for the bargain price of £19,000,000

What a shame that these aircraft are being sold or scrapped. Too many good days flying these.

I can only go to £5,000,000 on my CAA pension...

Nowadays, you can't even give A340s away ...

-300 or -600?
I think the -500 model would make a fantastic VIP airliner, with its range capability. Also, you can park it at an airport for a few days without them getting very upset, whereas with the -600 parking is effectively impossible to find apart from places like Montreal Mirabel, Victorville, Manston before it closed, Dubai world central, or Airbus locations like Hamburg Finkenwerder or Toulouse :{

That's for the -600

It's a total shame they are being wasted.

Wasn't that A340 that was marooned at the Lufthansa Technik werk in HAM for a few years one of those -500 versions ? Or was it a -8000 ? Whatever, it ended up as exactly that, a VIP steed.

It is no secret that Airbus are designed to be scrapped at a much younger age/hrs than their competitors airframes are. Also their are much more efficient aircraft out there that do the same job in the market.

It ended up as HZ-HMS2

the -500 was purchased for the Saad Group (saudi arabia / bahrain) who decided not to convert the aircraft.

SOLD
 

Need to move my money from my swiss bank account:d:d:d:d:d

A340 for sale.
 

STN will take a 600 !!!

So will MAN

I get why they are getting rid, but the ever decreasing lack of variety in the skies saddens me.

towteambase and philbky, really? Cool if so.
The problem is with the VIP stomping ground i.e. Nice, Olbia, Paris, Moscow, etc.
Positioning an A340 hundreds of miles for parking gets expensive fast.

I'll just check my HSBC Swiss account and see what I have available....:mad:

MAN has seen the VIR 600s on diversion many times, and they will operate on schedule from MAN this summer. Etihad 600s turn up from time to time on the scheduled services and VIR, LH and IB 600s pass through for repainting.

That's true, but they aren't usually welcome to stay for any length of time due to the amount of space they take up on the apron and limited parking stands. Throw a 744 and 77W in the mix and you're out of options very quickly for parking at MAN.

Well come this summer Virgin's will.

An 11 year old former BMI A332 was scrapped at Sanford a few years ago. Apparently the parts value was more attractive to the lessor than the lease rate that was achievable. See;

BMI A330 G-WWBD Being Scrapped - FlyerTalk Forums

A340 for sale.
 

VIRGIN have been to STN on div too, as well as a spanair that brought Real Madrid in for a champions league game. Probably has a few more stands capable now they have made the cargo apron longer for the -8s

Low demand for A340s... It might be worth more as "engines + scrap".