According to a few people within JAF, OO-TUC will be retired in september. This is, as far as we know, before the B788 will arrive and therefore JAF will lease additional equipment from Arke.
Any reason why TUC will be prematurally retired? Quite obviously leasing in an aircraft and crew is costing JAF quite a lot more then keeping TUC a few months longer
Many possible reasons:
-End of lease term
-Major maintenance overhaul coming up, decided was not worth to invest in it.
Rather than TUC retiring too early, the problem is probably that the B788 is late, hence JAF will probably get interim lift and Boeing will foot the bill.
According to a few people within JAF, OO-TUC will be retired in september. This is, as far as we know, before the B788 will arrive and therefore JAF will lease additional equipment from Arke.
Any reason why TUC will be prematurally retired? Quite obviously leasing in an aircraft and crew is costing JAF quite a lot more then keeping TUC a few months longer
Your input is very much appreciated.
End Of Life from what I've heard, won't be sold to a new owner who will fly it ... scrap so to say
The rumour I heard would be that the B788 would arrive in october?
TUC in any case costs JAF a small amount of money as they only have to pay for the aircraft once it's in the air, just like with the B735 a few years back. But if it's end of life, that would seem logical
shame I'm going up and down to PUJ in October, so I just missed it
I reserved seats this morning and according to the seat plan it will be an (old) arke 767
The plane is in production; in the table hereunder it is LN137 (which will not go to Thomson under registration G-TUIE, but to JAF under registration OO-J**)
The plane is in production; in the table hereunder it is LN137 (which will not go to Thomson under registration G-TUIE, but to JAF under registration OO-J**)
sn26567 wrote:The plane is in production; in the table hereunder it is LN137 (which will not go to Thomson under registration G-TUIE, but to JAF under registration OO-J**)
I, for one, say, finally ! I had my life's longest delay with this plane (18h) from Mexico and this plane was famous among aviation fans for being poorly maintained by Varig hence constantly suffering problems...
