It mentioned the type and registration of the aircraft.

What about the type and registration of the van?

Surely that is discrimination against vans!

That information is over on knackeredoldvans.com 😉

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I should have said new “Cheap leases on NEW BUILD quads” Granted there are 747 parked up but they are all used.
To put them back into service would require a maintenance input to service them and to reconfigure them to his layout, all adding to the cost. Also in the long term operating secondhand aircraft from different operators is a pain because they are all slightly different. Different operators choose different options and this causes higher maintenance costs. The often quoted example was the pilots pen holder on the 747. At one point there were FOURTY FOUR different options to choose from! Just imagine the different options available across the avionics. My airline operated a bunch of second hand aircraft from a variety of sources once and basicaly we had a different maintenance manual and parts catalogue for each aircraft.
When you buy ten new builds the will always be exactly the same or very close to the same.

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I think another reason that he had ordered the 330 is the lack of cheap leases on quad jets.
The lease companies proberbly won’t order the 747-800 due to the poor resale value after beardy has finished with them. The A340 is in the same boat. They are a slow seller compared to the 330 with a lot of the present operators being un happy withthem any way.
EROPS will dominate the wold compleatly before too long

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And how much extra fuel is needed due to the additional drag and weight issues?

Dunno, I just sweated blood hanging one on once!

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I have to leap to MAPLC’s defence. They have done the best that they can given the circumstances.

1. It doesn’t snow every year
2. The last time it snowed this bad was tens of years ago
3. It’s the holiday period
4. They only have limited staff and snow clearence equipment. The poor “Snow fleet” team have been on the go for about two weeks now. They must be knackard!

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seems like I have missed something somewhere.

😎

Don’t get drawn in Kabir.
It’s hand bags at dawn!!!

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ROFLMAO,just hope the roads are ok for my journey @0400am tomorrow morning!:rolleyes:

Hope so mate. I’ll be over your side tomorrow AM. See you then!

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