Anyone need some second hand A340's?

gcgiv · 01-28-2002, 12:08 PM

Boeing has 12 A340's for sale (All from Singapore, 2 to be delivered late this year).

Here's the link incase anyone wants to make an offer!

http://www.boeing.com/commercial/air...ts/batlst.html

Chris

Travelin' Man · 01-28-2002, 01:59 PM

Boeing's Used Plane Lot -

Hey there folks, trade in that 4 engine fule burning slug of an airplene Airbus model for a brand new state of the art two engine super fast and efficient 777!

Stanman · 01-28-2002, 04:02 PM

Tahiti Nui and BWIA are in the market for A340-300's. Perhaps they'll take a bite if the offer is cheap enough. The irony here is how does Boeing push both their 777's and the used A340-300's to people? Seems like a conflict of interest although I know the history of their accumulation of these A340's.

Sentinel Chicken · 01-28-2002, 09:24 PM

Apparently ATC guys are famous for the quick wit!

New York Center: "Please confirm whether you are an A330 or A340."

Air France Airbus: "We are senior pilots. We only fly the A340."

NY Center: "In that case, captain, please fire up your other two engines and get to the altitude and speed that I assigned to you."

DeltaFlot · 01-28-2002, 09:55 PM

Now let me get this straight. BOEING (????) is looking to sell Airbus products. How in the hell did this happen?

Travelin' Man · 01-28-2002, 10:02 PM

Hey Doc - Funny Joke - I liked it!

Spectre · 01-28-2002, 10:41 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Sentinel Chicken
Apparently ATC guys are famous for the quick wit!

New York Center: "Please confirm whether you are an A330 or A340."

Air France Airbus: "We are senior pilots. We only fly the A340."

NY Center: "In that case, captain, please fire up your other two engines and get to the altitude and speed that I assigned to you."

this made made day
thank you

Stanman · 01-29-2002, 01:25 AM

"Now let me get this straight. BOEING (????) is looking to sell Airbus products. How in the hell did this happen?"

Deltaflot,

The short story on this is that Boeing made a deal with SIA to take all of SQ's 17 A340-300's but not A340-500's. In return, SIA would exercise their option for 10 of the 777-200ER's. Of course Airbus was not too pleased with this strategy but then Boeing got the sale so all's fair in love and war. Now that SQ has been receiving 777-200's and 300's, SQ has been sending A340-300's to Boeing and that is now why Boeing has all these A340's for sale. In a way it's really quite sharp of both Boeing and SQ. Boeing gets to sell planes and SQ doesn't have to bother with trying to sell the A340-300's. As it is they're (SQ) already having to sell their A310's as they replace them with 777-200's.

As an aside, the A340-300's were ordered in 1991 in response to SQ's dissatisfaction with the actual performance of the MD-11's they were receiving and subsequently cancelled due to failure to meet specifications.

aircanada · 01-29-2002, 03:36 PM

great joke doc

niels · 01-29-2002, 06:13 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Stanman
Tahiti Nui and BWIA are in the market for A340-300's

FWIW both have already sourced their 340s.
Tahiti will get their 340-300s from Canada 3000/Sabena I believe,
and BWIA will get 2 ex-Air Canada 340-300s (AC is getting -500s/-600s).

boeingbill · 01-30-2002, 12:50 AM

Yeah the A340 singapores wouldnt climb fast enough by the time they reached Indian air space so they where held to lower flight levels.

aircanada · 01-30-2002, 08:32 AM

is that true?

DavidMich · 02-03-2002, 01:07 PM

well, the USAF needs drones for target practice.

Ozz · 02-03-2002, 03:16 PM

Forget the drones, the USAF get's enough practice intercepting real airliners for "security" reasons.
I say they turn them into cruise missles, payback's a *****!