My Take off video from Male International

My landing video @ BIA

Understand TG is pulling out their Long Busses end of March 15

There goes a nice schemed 346 !!!

Singapore, A SQ 380 trying to fly “under” the sun



Singapore, RSAF CH 47



Singapore, RSAF F5 doing touch and go

Singapore, A SQ 380, Gear down in progress



Singapore, Gear down, and in short final

Singapore, Silkair Baby Bus 319, in the process of being phased out for an All Boeing Fleet !!



Singapore, Classic BA 747-400

Singapore, A CX 330 on short Final

Few years ago TG retired the A340-500s as well. Does TG own these A340-600s? What's going to happen with these TG's A340-600s after retirement?

News : Thai Airways accelerates A340-600 retirement to 28 March 2015



BANGKOK: -- Thai Airways accelerated planned retirement of its A340-600 fleet to 28 March 2015 with the aircraft no longer appearing in the schedule from the following day, as per a 16-Feb-2015 GDS inventory and timetable display .

The following services are affected:

Bangkok Suvarnabhumi-Frankfurt: Three class 376-seat Boeing 747-400 to replace three class 267-seat A340-600 equipment on six of 13 weekly frequencies, resulting in 654 additional one-way seats each week;

Bangkok Suvarnabhumi-Zurich: Two class 364-seat 777-300 to replace three class 267-seat A340-600 equipment on seven weekly frequencies, resulting in 679 additional one-way seats each week.

Thai also operates A340 equipment on some regional services from Bangkok Suvarnabhumi to Singapore, Hong Kong and Delhi. According to the CAPA Fleet Database, Thai Airways currently operates six A340-600 aircraft with an average age of 9.0 years.

The Airbus A340 is a long-range four-engine wide-body commercial passenger jet airliner. It was developed and produced by Airbus. The A340 was assembled at Toulouse, France.

It seats up to 375 passengers in the standard variants and 440 in the stretched -600 series. Depending on the model, it has a range of between 6,700 to 9,000 nautical miles (12,400 to 16,700 km).

It is similar in design to the twin-engined A330 with which it was concurrently designed. Its distinguishing features are four high-bypass turbofan engines and three-bogie main landing gear.

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The A345s were bought to compete with SQ I believe, but the route flopped, as did SQ's - SQ had to reconfigure the seats to all-Business Class. Most likely they may find use in other airlines who are using the 340-600s profitably ..

SQ still holds the record for the world's longest non-stop flight, with their SIN-LAX and SIN-EWR flights, now withdrawn !

It was a frequent visitor to SIN, and will be missed ..

It's all about economics I guess .. though the 340-600 did last longer than the average 340-500, in service

Chine Eastern has announced that the last flight of A340-600 going to be end of April 2015. If I am not mistaken China Eastern is currently operating A340-600 only on PVG-SIN as well as NRT, TPE and domestic flights.. Between March 30 and June 15, Virgin Atlantic plans to use A340-600s on the route prior to deploying new B787-9s. Last flight of VS A340-300 operating on 29 March 2015. It looks like Lufthansa, Iberia and Etihad Airways are operating A340-600 profitably. Not sure other operators like SAA, Virgin Atlantic are happy with the long bus A340-600.

Any body name the list of operators of long bus A340-600?

A340-600

A340-600 current operators are: SA,EY,QR,VS,IB,LH,TG,MU. TG and MU you will get rid of them soon. The rest seem to be happy with theirs. SA operates them on ULR from JNB to USA. LH and IB to use them on LRs. Drinks too much fuel.

SA's main benefit of the 340-600 is the ability to lift valuable weight from JNB I believe, which is a hot and high airport, and the 340-600 easily outperforms the twin jets- 777 and the likes. Apparently the 777s can't even come closer to what the quad jets can do !

it may drink a bit more fuel, but for those purposes, it is the best. And hence the use for 340-600 and Arik's 340-500

And the PK's 772Ws proved that a twin jet is not the best for hot/high conditions, when the new 772Ws struggled, with weight restrictions - true

With lowering fuel costs, except those airlines trying to rationalise the fleets, the 340's may hang on for a while longer than expected, just like the 747-400s .

One benefit for the 340 series, as is overlooked, is the lesser requirement as with a quad jet- no ETOPS certifications/verifications and works best for long over water routes. IB predominantly fly 340-600s to the Latin American Countries, again, high altitude airports.

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Sri Lankan, 4R-ABR, A321-200 (UL-302??)



Sri Lankan, 4R-ABR, A321-200

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3K/VF logo Jet 320 (possibly doing the Indonesia run, the VF titles kept to overcome the Indonesian Air Rules - Power Trip-someone ??)



Another 3K 320, preparing to land, wheels down ..



Wheels down, all Green !