VB/PB livery rebranding starts.

[Yusef D]

... and as a little factoid, VH-VUE came out 220kg heavier than it went in.

That has an ongoing effect on fuel consumption... for every kg heavier it will burn a kg of fuel every 30 hours...

not as bad as the penalty from that bloody awful Live2Air dome of course.

[Michael Mak]

How did that happen? Was it due to the type of paint used? Did it happen to other repainted 738 too?

[Yusef D]

Michael... I haven't looked at the before/after numbers before, but I assume so. I'm guessing it comes from painting over the old paint job, which is quicker and cheaper (taking an aircraft out of service for a shorter period) than stripping and replacing the paint.

[NathanJ]

VUE is Curl Curl Beach.

[Radi K]

F50s VH-FNE and VH-FNF being painted Nov/Dec prior to commencing Fokker 50 operations in Brisbane in Jan.

[Yusef D]

strange to have F50 and ATR ops in BNE. Different crew, spares, engineering requirements etc.

[JamesL]

But it competes on par with the the DH8-Q300 for ASK.

[Yusef D]

but when you have to relocate/retrain crew and engineers, order more spare parts to place them ready at a different base, that adds hundreds of thousands of $ in costs that will take a long time to offset with just 2 airframes.

[Radi K]

It's not for RPT rather FIFO

[Ash W]

The 'issues' raised are still valid though.

But frankly Virgin would have done the sums and knows what they are doing.