NEWS FLASH
Air Serbia is wet-leasing a Wamos Air A330-200 aircraft on a short-term basis to maintain continuity of its long-haul operations after one of its own aircraft of the same type (registered YU-ARB) experienced a technical issue with one of its engines in Chicago while on the ground. The Wamos Air jet that will operate on behalf of Air Serbia is registered EC-MAJ and is now on its way from Madrid to Belgrade, prior to operating this afternoon’s Air Serbia service to New York. A wet-lease involves a different carrier providing its aircraft, complete crew and technical support. The aircraft in question boasts 297 seats, including 24 in business class and 273 in economy.
Good on them for not just canceling the flights
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DeleteI guess this kind of lease is expensive as hell but it's important to deliver what you sell. Hope ARB gets back soon.
ReplyDeleteIt is very expensive, but it would be much more expensive to cancel flights, reroute all the passengers and pay them compensations as flights are nowadays full to the last seat.
DeletePlus like this u keep your reputation, as this is the right thing to do.
DeleteFlights nowadays are absolutely not full to the last seat. Worldwide load factor so far this year is about 82.5 percent. This means that less than ten percent of planes are full.
ReplyDelete82.5% is for the whole year, which usually means lower LF in the Q1 and Q2, while in the Q3 LF is well above 90%.
DeletePlanes are absolutely full nowadays especially on Transatlantic services. Today there were 235 passengers which would have been a 99% LF had YU-ARB flown it (236 seats available).
DeleteBefore you write something think and check the facts.
YU-ARB has 257 seats. Before you write something make sure you are clear that you are referring only to economy class seating which is 236. Either way load factor is considered for all the seats so your 236 is not complete calculation of load factor.
DeleteThere were 20 business class passengers today on the Wamos plane. YU-ARB has 21 seats in business
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235 in Economy class and 20 in Business.
DeleteWhen we flew jfk to beg and back, both ways were packed in July, i didn't see any empty seats
DeleteAs of 1 hour ago, YU-ARB still on the ground by Manheim Road at ORD, since Wednesday. Work being done on the right engine. Always pleasure to see AS birds, only bad thing is that 250 passengers did not make it to Belgrade on Wednesday night and it is very hard to put them on other airlines since flights to Europe are full as somebody wrote above. I feel sorry for these people for loosing this flight/ their vacation completely.
ReplyDeleteI doubt all airlines are full in late August. They should have been rerouted across any and all available airlines to Europe where they could gave connected with a JU (not AS, Alaska Airlines) flight to BEG
DeleteBetter late than have an issue while in flight. I would be totally fine losing a few days. But yeah, hopefully passengers got taken care of the airline
DeleteAll passengers were taken care of with TK.
Deletewhat is a technical issue with the engine while still on the ground? What happened to ARB?
ReplyDeleteOn what planet do you expect for an airline to give you a plane's technical log book to fulfil your desire to know exactly what engine issue an airplane had.
DeleteChill dwag, just askin'
DeleteTesla got tired
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