Embraer 190 AR 190.00629 VH-A3U ? delivery 16-17aug24 MZJ-TUS-YHZ-NWI, seen regd 18aug24 ex N374JB
Embraer 190 LR 190.00435 VH-XFC AirNorth delivery 11-16aug24 NWI-HRG-MCT-BLR-SZB-DRW ex VH-SEF

XFM is scheduled to fly from ROK to Darwin tonight on delivery to Air North.

Thanks Greg, I see XFC has not gone into service yet.

XFM now due BNE/DRW Saturday afternoon.

VH-A3U ex. N374JB (currently in Norwich) as added to the VH-Reg on 27/08/24 to Alliance

Hey Greg, how do you get this information? CASA's website hasn't been updated since the 9th and doesn't show NJE's 8QB either.

Don’t waste your time on CASAs terrible and infrequently updated website. The raw data files are updated daily.

https://www.casa.gov.au/aircraft/air...pdatedatafiles

If you note a problem with the CASA site you should log the problem with CASA. I logged "Your online Aircraft Register has not updated since 09/08/24" with CASA last week.

If more users would log problems then they might get fixed more quickly.

Just checked and the CASA site is now working

From ch-aviation

Qantas to bump E190 fleet by YE24 - Alliance Air

By Andrew Curran 29Aug2024

Qantas (QF, Sydney Kingsford Smith) will exercise the final four E190 options it holds with Alliance Airlines (QQ, Brisbane International) by the end of the year, according to Alliance managing director Scott McMillan, who says the closed charter and wet lease specialist carrier is increasingly well-positioned to capitalise on the demand for capacity with its growing fleet of E190s.
"The aviation market worldwide is looking very bullish in terms of capacity," McMillan told an August 29 analysts' briefing following the release of its FY2024 results. "We committed last year to purchase thirty E190s from AerCap. It's a decision that, with the benefit of hindsight, is looking better and better every month."

Qantas, which holds a 19.73% stake in Alliance, already has twenty-six E190s in its fleet, all operated on a wet lease basis by Alliance. Another two will go to Qantas in September, a third towards the end of October, and the fourth in December.
Alliance had settled on ten of those thirty ex-AerCap E190s as of June 30, 2024. The airline has since settled on three more, including two this week. "The goal is to have all 30 AerCap aircraft delivered by June 2026," McMillan said. Seven of those aircraft will be parted out, providing Alliance with a stock of spare parts to use on its fleet, but also to sell to other Embraer operators.

Alliance had also secured four E190s from Azorra Aviation, now all delivered and in operation for the carrier, as well as an initial tranche of thirty-three E190s from Jetran and Azorra, also now all delivered.

As of June 30, Alliance had possession of forty-seven E190s. Another four are due for delivery this quarter, and three more are expected in the fourth quarter. In calendar 2025, the airline expects ten E190 deliveries - three in the first quarter, two each in the second and third quarters, and three in the final three months of the year. Two more E190s are due in the first quarter of 2026 and the final one in the second quarter of that year - taking the E190 delivery total to 67 airframes. However, the number of operational E190s will be fewer as some will be sold and others are already or will be parted out.

"We have people knocking on our door all the time wanting to buy either engines or airframes or both from us, and a number of these E190s are lower serial numbers," said McMillan. "It does make sense for us to sell some of the airframes and retain the engines."

At the close of the 2024 financial year, Alliance Airlines had 72 aircraft in revenue service. In addition to the E190s, the airline had thirteen Fokker 70s and twenty-four Fokker 100s in service. During the 2024 financial year, it acquired three additional F100s, with two being parted out and one due to enter service this month on a wet-lease basis with Virgin Australia (VA, Brisbane International).

"We've got significant growth and are turning away business," McMillan said. "We'll be building our Embraer operations in Queensland and strengthening our Fokker operations in Western Australia. In addition to finalising the four aircraft going to Qantas, we have people talking to us about buying Embraers, and we are finalising the dry leases for two additional E190s. We don't see any future changes to what we're doing - growing our fleet, growing our earnings, growing our cash flow, and ultimately reducing our debt as quickly as possible. That's the strategy."

Alliance generated an after-tax profit of AUD60.5 million Australian dollars (USD41.2 million) in the 12 months to June 30, 2024, on revenue of AUD646.8 million (USD441.2 million). Closed charter contract revenue, primarily flying for mining and resource companies, generated 48% of the total revenues; wet lease ops for customers such as
Qantas and Virgin Australia accounted for 41%. Ad hoc charters accounted for 2.6%, regular passenger transport services accounted for 2%, and other services such as MRO, the sale of parts, ground handling, and aerodrome management accounted for the remainder.

Another E.190 has ferried MCN to SJO, on 23/8/24, N203JB. There are 6 there now.

Thanks Dennis,

The six in SJO are:

N184JB, N190JB, N192JB, N193JB, N197JB, N203JB

As per the announcement above (and previous) 7 (or more) are to be reduced to spares, 3 we know (on VH-Reg) and the first 4 above could be the other candidates. All the above are still on the N-reg.

We should get an indication with the next a/c to leave SJO because 4 of these may be staying.

Also, interesting N198JB which should of been the next from MCO->SJO was skipped.

We live in interesting times.

I've summarised the EOY report (& hopefully go it right)

QF x 26, + 2 x Sept, 1 x Oct, 1 x Dec = Total 30

AerCap/JetBlue - 30 with 13 in QQ ownership
Azzora/JetBlue - 4 with 4 in QQ ownership (A2T, A2U,A2V,A3U)

Delv schedule:

June30 - 47 in use
CY24Q3 - + 4
CY24Q4 - + 3
CY25Q1 - + 3
CY25Q2 - + 2
CY25Q3 - + 2
CY25Q4 - + 3
CY26Q1 - + 2
CY26Q2 - + 1

Total 20 - Fleet 67 (dependent on part-out/sale)

Hi Greg, You might be spot on. I have just had a look at Airline Fleets and it shows 21 with QFLink, so these may only be the ones painted in QFlink livery, all 6 x UZ, all 10 x XV and 5 x UY, E, O, W, Y and Z. So I guess the other 5 must still be in Alliance livery, or perhaps UYR which is all white. With A2T, U and V all flying for Alliance it will be interesting what livery A3U will leave Norwich in??

XFM is scheduled to fly from ROK to Darwin this arvo on delivery to Air North.

XFC finally entered service this morning with Air North, ANO160, Darwin to Gove

UYW was damaged by a catering truck last night in Cairns

Much damage ?

Alliance have announced today that they have signed a Letter of Intent to sell six E190 airframes to a European company. The aircraft will be flown to Europe, with the engines then removed and shipped to Australia.

Alliance also say they have signed a LOI to sell 13 surplus, time expired or unserviceable Rolls-Royce Tay 620/650 engines to another European operator.

https://cdn-api.markitdigital.com/ap...041a0e155a9400

Will these E190s be the parts ships (OU_, etc.) or some of the active aircraft in the fleet?

Lauren it says they are coming straight from the aircraft in the USA :)

The six aircraft will be flown from the delivery point in the United States direct to Europe, where
the engines will be removed and shipped to Australia. The airframes will be delivered and
settled at the point of engine removal.

They have around 10 frames stored at MCN.

I expect that will come from that lot.

Check up-thread and for a listing.

Update on JetBlue E190's for QQ
Pre-Delivery
NWI: A3U (N374JB) (1)
SJO: N184JB, N190JB, N192JB, N193JB, N197JB, N203JB (6)
Stored
MCN: N198JB, N206JB, N216JB, N228JB, N229JB, N231JB, N236JB, N238JB, N239JB, N247JB, N249JB, N258JB (12)
Inservice
JBU: N295JB, N266JB, N267JB, N273JB, N274JB, N279JB, N281JB, N283JB, N284JB (9)

N198JB was kipped when the last a/c was transferred, so it may be headed for Europe

Does Alliance still have links to the company in Slovakia?

Alliance Aviation Slovakia was mentioned in the FY24 Financial Report as well as:

The Group commenced base maintenance activities at the Rockhampton hangar in November 2023. In addition to this capacity the Group use a number of base maintenance providers including Jet Aviation in Cairns, Fokker Services Asia in Singapore, Austrian Airlines Technik in Slovakia, Coopesa in Costa Rica and KLMUK in the United Kingdom to fill shortfalls as Rockhampton works towards full capabilities.

My guess, Yes It does.

So they could use this as a facility to remove & ship engines back too Oz.

https://careers.allianceairlines.com.au/

Also, last month QQ had a massive advertising blitz to get qualified engineers for the Rocky base. This included an item on the local TV news.

XFM due for its first run tomorrow to Brisbane on behalf of VA as well as XFC about an hour late

Looks like UYJ is leaving the Air North fleet, it is due to leave DRW in 55 minutes as QQ9826 for BNE.

UYC is still flying for Air North, so is it going to leave Air North after XFM goes into service, or is it going to stay???

Air North (like QQ) fly flights on behalf of VA.

XFM is scheduled to fly VA454, Darwin to Brisbane at 12:25 local

I heard both were returning.

UYJ has been with AN since 08/2022

2 Air North E190's flew DRW-BNE this afternoon..VH-XFM and VH-XFL.
They are still here and about to depart back to DRW.

Both operating for VA.:)

Alliance F100 VH-XWP operated the TL183/182 rotation today TSV to DRW return on behalf of AirNorth. Presumably this was to cover the VA charters on the E190’s. F100’s in the Friday schedule going forward with E190’s operating Monday’s and Wednesday’s.

A few ownership changes (VH-Reg):

XFC to AN on 02/09/24
XFM to AN on 11/09/24
UYJ to QQ on 12/09/24

Hey Greg,

UYC is still flying for Air North today

Both XFC and XFL are flying for VA today, DRW/BNE/DRW VA452/453 and 454/455. Both are on the way now. These 2 flights operated yesterday as well.

Today VH-XFC and VH-XFM flew for VA to BNE.:)

N198JB @ SJO

Ferried in on 07/09/24.

Starting to get very crowded

https://cdn.jetphotos.com/full/5/669471_1726427304.jpg

Update on JetBlue E190's for QQ
Pre-Delivery
NWI: A3U (N374JB) (1)
SJO: N184JB, N190JB, N192JB, N193JB, N197JB, N198JB, N203JB (7)
Stored
MCN: N206JB, N216JB, N228JB, N229JB, N231JB, N236JB, N238JB, N239JB, N247JB, N249JB, N258JB, N265JB (12)
Inservice
JBU: N266JB, N267JB, N273JB, N274JB, N279JB, N281JB, N283JB, N284JB (8)

VH-UYR diverted to Rocky last Tuesday (17/09) after suffering a mid-flight pressurization problem whilst operating QF1871 from Townsville to Brisbane.

Still in Rocky.

Hi Greg, Just doing somechecking, N281JB went to QRO ( Queretaro) Mexico on 8 August and is still there. I have seen other 190s go there, and I understand it could be a maintenance base that JB uses??

Correct, Dennis, probably, JB routine maintenance

Hi Dennis,

I agree with Greg's reply. And just to give a little more context, the JetBlue E190s go to TechOps México, located in QRO ("TechOps Mexico is an MRO service center jointly financed by Delta Airlines and Aeroméxico").