Thanks for all the replies , i did think it was the case that Kenyan previously cleared LHR before with their last B737 batch and also i believe Ethiopian also did the same ; assumedly for the same reason of a station.
I'm not sure if any of these flights onward were direct revenue flights or not.Certainly Monday's fight on to Kenya via Cairo was empty.
It just would be nice to have an advanced notice of these sorts of thing dropping in to LHR.

TCX New A330
 

Does anyone know when this is due for delivery, ive had a search on G-Info and Airbus but no info. Ive seen Jethros details but cant find anymore info. Is this still happening.

its due to be delivered LFBO-EGCC on the 19/11 as TCX330P

Fried Chicken

How many new TCX 330's are due?

This photo was taken at TLS on 30/10/06:

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Cheers for the info.

eP

As far as i'm aware just the one.

:ok: cheers mate.

Whens it being delivered?????? flying to CCC on Sunday

Any chance?????

Regards

Stu

Just out of interest, when was this third 332 frame ordered? According to Airbus orders and deliveries, they only ever ordered 2.

All the British Charter airlines (Thomas Cook, Thomsonfly, First Choice, Monarch, Excel/Travel City, MyTravel Airways who have flown here for the past 10 years or so) plus low-cost airline Flyglobespan and Scheduled carrier Icelandair.

Its due for delivery 19th November.

Is the interior any different? Please dont tell me they have put an out of date video loop system in this new a/c

Aircraft options?
 

Fairly self explanatory. I keep reading about companies buying x many aircraft with y options. Just wondering what the options part means?

Rob

If you order an aircraft it is for a firm delivery date and you will negotiate hard and get say a 737, whose "list" price (in practice rarely paid) is $60m each, for a bargain price, say $50m for each one, all in a firm contract

Airlines like to have one type in their fleet. Now I have bought 10 737s to be delivered over the next year at $50m each. But maybe in 3, maybe 5 years time I will want some more, though not really certain yet if I do or how many I will want, or when.

But if you go back to Boeing in a couple of years time and say "how much", they know you are stuck with all the maintenance and training for the 737 and that changing to the A320 will cost you a bomb and is not what you want to do at all. So they can say "Well the list price has now gone up to $70m, in fact they're so popular we would like $75m each".

So you do an option with your initial order that says - well they all say different things. But maybe it says you can order up to another 12, anytime up to 5 years from now, for delivery within 12 months from then, at a price of $50m plus some inflation index percentage. So when you do go back in a few years time you can be confident that the order price will be say $53m.

So you are on the order books with an agreed price although you needn't take any at all. But you know what you could have if you want, and how much they will cost.

If things turn out bad for the manufacturer there is of course nothing to stop you from negotiating the price down further at that later date. But the manufacturer cannot stick you for more.

Manufacturers like options too because they give an indication of what could possibly be sold in the future and the figures often get misinterpreted as something as good as orders for the long term.

I have positioned through MCO and regularly operate an A330 into SFB. A copy of points

1. The taxiways are wide enough with no exceptionally tight turns.
2. The time taken to transit from the aircraft in SFB, clear imigration and pick up bags is a fraction of the time of the time at MCO.
3. The terminal is large enough to cope with 7 wide bodies at a time.

I do agree with your comments on the flying training though

Cheers WHBM, very clear answer! I was also wondering as I read that whats in it for the manufacturers (whether the airline has to put down a deposit or something) but I guess the interest is good enough for them!

Yes, some options have deposits paid against them (though a nominal amount, others don't. It all depends what you negotiate.

In my day job I do options on cement and steel. If I am building Terminal 5 at Heathrow I say to RMC Concrete "how much for 500,000 cubic metres of concrete delivered to the site by the end of 2007. And they will quote £50 a cubic metre, and I place an option (we call it a "bulk order"). I don't pay anything initially and I don't have to take anything, but I know now that if I call them up and say I want 100 cubic metres next Monday, delivered to site, that it will cost me £5,000. It's the same concept. If they didn't trust I was serious about taking any (they can see I am doing the job) they wouldn't quote.

If they have to build a whole production unit to handle the job they may say "£5 million up front, then just £40 a cubic metre". It gets much more complicated than that but you get the idea. Airlines do the same sort of negotiations with manufacturers.

Air India Worldliners
 

Is Air India supposed to be the next Worldliner customer after PIA?

When are they supposed to get the planes?

Where would they fly?

What interior would they have? (Air India, unlike PIA, has first class in their 747-s.)

And when will the other Worldliner customers (Emirates, EVA, Air Canada, Delta... who else?) get their planes?

MYT G-GTDL to be painted at last?!
 

MyTravel A320 G-GTDL is departing BHX to FZO tmrw as MYT005, could this be for a repaint?

Be so good to see all the MYT fleet in the full colour scheme!

Talking on which does anyone know how it is possible to find out which A/C in an airlines fleet will be painted next and when?

fingers x it finally is... only G-BYTH left now? oh and 1 767 to be finished off
G-ERAA is off back to SSV for winter, think that was the only other aircraft to not have the full livery

Yeah just BYTH and ERAA when/if it comes back next year. And yeah also DAJC with that vile incomplete livery. We've got SMTJ at BHX at the mo so fingers crossed GTDL is still in the paint shop!