Big boys at MAD

Thks for the info guys…

Still haven’t seen the “Cubana” 330.

And I find it is really disgraceful when a company decides to
make money expatriating people.
It seems some of us don’t remember we were in that situation
not so long ago…

Yago

The Cuban A330 – Isn’t it from the same Swedish company as Air Luxor aqured there A330 from – cant remember the name…

There were lots of complains about the A310 price, but due to the plane crash in Turkey, the issue seems to be quite off at the moment. And about the Delta plane have been purchased by Swiftair (with a ATR72) to expatriate illegal inmigrants to their countries by the Ministry of Interior

Hi Keltic

I’m working 15 hours a day lately I can’t follow the news.

What I heard, please correct if I’m wrong, is that the Spanish
govt spent a bit too much on these 310. My fav airplane is the
300 so I think it’s a good choice but it is said they could have
bought a smaller Airbus but new for less.

Have you heard anything similar.

I haven’t seen the 330 used by Cubana. Who does it belong
to?

And do you know anything about an ex-Delta 727?
It has been parked for weeks at MAD. Its new reg is EC-IMY
and they’ve just painted the red parts blue (and taken off
the Delta titles of course).

Don’t know if it’s private or no…

Yago

New airport in Logroño, new operator, using Saab340
www.iberline.es
And about the A310, well. The junk B707 needed to be changed, so I find the A310 a nice replacement, not an Airforce one, but enough for a small power like Spain. The main argument here, in Spain as you know….renting IB planes for VIPS like Tony with BA, or having an own A310, which some people find them faraonic. First, Spain ecconomy can afford having a plane like that for the Royal Air Force, and secondly it could be used in many other tasks (minimizing costs) like troops transport, freight delivery in humanitarian tasks, and even renting for cargo flights. A good decission.:)

Mmm, A340 from Logroño? I thought Logroño AP had a very small runway.

And about the A310… where are they being converted to the VIP role? Here in Spain or in Toulouse?

Hi Keltic, sorry for not replying before but I’ve been quite busy.
Things in my company are going crazy…

I don’t know what Iberline 340 you’re talking about. Is it a
new company ?

I haven’t been on the tarmac for quite a few weeks now.

But I’ve seen the Pullmantur 747 today for the first time.
Very nice bird.

And about the Air Force A310, do you think you should talk
about the price paid in this forum or would it give a bad image
of Spain…. 😀

These two were at Birmingham in ’98

nice! – we had the B747SP of the Royal Dubai Air wing in at Leeds last week – only the second time ever the RDAW example have been in!

Hi Yago….I am eager to see our royal air force´s brand new VIPS A310 on Madrid-Barajas tarmac. About new things in madrid, I want to answer you a couple of things. Have you already seem the new Cubana A330-200? Are they still using the DC-10?…and something about two exotic operators…..Have you seen the Iberline A340 from Logroño airport? (I suppose they are at T3. Is the new B747-300 from Pullmantur Air in Barajas?. Sorry guys, some local curiosity.

Yeah, those two government 744’s were up at LHR a few weeks ago. One of them was adamant he was going to get 27L!