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Old 27th June 2017, 08:04 PM
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Originally Posted by Yusef D View Post
VA has said they want to keep some 738s to third 6 check, 18 years! That's getting a little mature for my liking, when the company fleet plan so far is built on deriving high utilisation from fresh reliable airframes. VA isn't QF. The latter has extensive in house heavy maint facilities and experience. This concerns me. Hopefully (for me) the airframes will age at TT.

It'll be a long time before TT get Yankee Foxtrot anything. There are still Victor series airframes to hand down (including BZG). Yankee Indias even less likely as they're optimised for longer international flights, and are a little heavier.
But there are plans to expand TT into short haul international, so the YI frames will assist this.

Looks like the experts thing VA are on the right track.

http://australianaviation.com.au/201...ive-to-stable/
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