nice…India’s Ratan Tata flies a Falacon 900 and 2000…awsome birds these are.

That concorde shouldbt be at that specific place at NY.

accesibilty?? how?

Originally posted by Interflug62M
Strictly my own opinion but I think that the Russian aircraft industry today still suffers from chronic under investment as well as the so called “Soviet Era Syndrome”. The shame of it is is that the very latest offerings from the likes of Tupolev, Antonov and Ilyushin are broadly comperable with “western” types of today. There always used to be the worry of after sales support from the Russian companies and the reliable supply of spare parts. Cubana has been having great problems of late keeping its IL62s airworthy because of this, although they have recently confirmed an order for IL96-300s. I gather that the situation is getting better on the support front, but it does not seem to be the same in the sphere of investment in the construction companies. However the recent news of the possible re-opening of the An124 production line may be the first real sign that things are beginning to change…I for one, certainly hope so.

agreed totally…but mainly because Russian economy is not letting enough investment into civil aviation industry of Russia. And Russia HAS to invest in air defence simply due to there countries sheer size.

the big thing is that the Russian government doesent give enough support to its civil aviation industry.

Originally posted by greekdude1
Their A330’s are less than 10 years old, why replace them already? I’m sure they have 744’s and A340’s in the fleet that are older.

true…but i was just wondering as i have seen some airlines (cant remember from the top of my head) that have replaced older versions of the 330 with new ones.

I am guessing just the airport and nothing else.