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The graveyard credit crunched budget airlines send unwanted passenger jets

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  • 08-11-2008 2:39pm
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    Mythago
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    Some "nearly new" bargains to be had :)

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    Run_to_da_hills
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    O Leary can get them brand new from Boeing cheaper than that :pac:


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    mumhaabu
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    This is terrible wouldn't they be better off stored in the Mojave desert where the incessant rain won't ruin them?


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    xbox36016
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    cheap airlines because thay will do anything to sell than to you


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    Davidth88
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    Lasham of course used to be the home of Dan Air ( I remember the Comets ! )

    Strange place to dump them , bit damp as other people have mentioned .

    Of course it's cheap , how much are the parking charges for the Futuera 738's sitting at DUB now ! ( and who pays them ? )

    Not nice times to be a charter airline I think


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    Foggy43
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    It depends on the lease agreement between the airline and the bank who actually owns the aircraft, who pays storage of aircraft. Always the airline I find.


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    Davidth88
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    but if the airline has gone west, who picks up the bills ?


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    highlydebased
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    Lasham is not a graveyard. Its a maintanence facility, particularly in cases which are not time urgent

    Just shows how much the Times know about aviation- S7 have not gone bust, the lease merely ended on the B733 classics.


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    Mythago
    Registered Users Posts: 394 ✭✭Mythago


    Neon-Circles wrote: »
    Lasham is not a graveyard. Its a maintanence facility, particularly in cases which are not time urgent

    Some would call it antique restoration ;) Although they do 737ng's these days too.


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    highlydebased
    Registered Users Posts: 7,469 ✭✭✭highlydebased


    Fine antiques they are too!


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