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    14 hours ago, JuliusWong said:

    AirAsia to return planes to lessors, shrink fleet - CEO

    https://www.thestar.com.my/business/business-news/2020/10/08/airasia-to-return-planes-to-lessors-shrink-fleet---ceo

    AirAsia X to shed aircraft and restructure debts

    https://www.flightglobal.com/strategy/airasia-x-to-shed-aircraft-and-restructure-debts/140489.article

    "AirAsia X plans to operate a fleet of ā€œup to 25 [Airbus] A330 aircraftā€ and says it ā€œremains engaged with all key business partnersā€ over contracts and agreements. Cirium fleets data shows that Air Asia X has a fleet of 23 A330-300s, 21 of which are in storage. The carrier owns five A330s and leases the rest from various lessors. It also has orders with Airbus for 10 A350s, 76 A330neos and 30 A321XLRs."

    "We are not going to buy new planes and we are going to return as many as we can. I estimate by the end of next year we'll be flying 180 planes," Fernandes told reporters. The group currently has 245 aircraft.

    There are another 16 A330ceo/neo with Thai AirAsia X and PT Indonesia AirAsia Extra, making total of 39 A330ceo/neo for AirAsia Group with one more due to delivery HS-XTM. I guess they will cancel HS-XTM delivery. Draw down early birds and returnĀ those BOC Aviation ones and many others. Also sell off remaining owned five A330s.....

    Removal of 65 A320ceo 9M-AF*, AH* series will be first to go....and older ones in AirAsia India and Philippines.

    Battling for survival now.........

    Here is HS-XTM doing flight test when COVID-19 pandemic at its peak back in April 2020. Photo Credit:Ā Ching Ho &Ā Paul Y. M. Chow

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    Will they remove their A321neo as well?Ā 

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    1 hour ago, szesyn said:

    I have been noticing Flightradar showing MH752 operating KCH-HAN on Wednesdays departing at 0910. Do we really have a flight to Vietnam? Equipment operating is an A330-300.

    P2C flight. Usually will park at the cargo apron or Bay 9.

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    1 hour ago, jahur said:

    Probably more take off and landing cycles than other regular planes of same age and production. Regular airlines will use their planes for maybe 15-20years and still have regular value . But for lcc due to shorten turnaround and high utilization rate, probably 10 years or less is sufficient for disposal or sales. Plane can still last a lot longer though may not be efficient.

    I see. Thanks for the info!Ā 

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    12 hours ago, Samuel Chy said:

    After a long waits, finally Love Fly on her proving flight, after a week of postponed.Ā 

    yesterday (06Dec), she fly to PEN overnight, and later today she was schedule to flight to BKI as NM8888 (as shown in PEN FID) at 1230LT. but she only took off from PEN at around 1325LT, with the flight number of "LUV".Ā 

    she then landed at BKI at 1545LT, after around 2hrs 20mins of flying time from PEN.Ā 

    the Port side
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    but the weather not on our side~Ā :pardon:

    and the starboard side
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    But still thanks for the little rain, reduced the heat haze for this colleciton.Ā :friends:

    on ground the aircraft is handled by PosAviation as well.Ā 

    after several hours on ground, she finally ready to back SZB as NM8889 at 1830LT. instead of "9MLUV" on her test flight earlier last week, and "LUV" for today PEN-BKI flight.

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    Ā 

    if you notice that, the management take the action pretty fast after our little "complaint" on the stains. today she pretty clean. quite a lovely livery i must say

    :drinks:

    Uuu. Nice night panšŸ˜

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    On 11/20/2019 at 4:22 PM, Tamizi Hj Tamby said:

    14th November 2019 (Thursday), the highlight of the day.

    Royal Brunei Airlines (RBA) inaugural flight to SBW, thus making it the first international airline operating international scheduled flight to SBW.

    Aircraft is ATR 72-600, 9M-LGD, operated by Malindo Air.

    Golf Delta on final approach to touchdown

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    Touchdown!

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    Ā 

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    Close up of Lima Golf Delta

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    I was in hurry to snap these as i was occupied with the press conference after the inaugural flight. And there she is, returning to BWN as BI6886.

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    Rotate!

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    Ā 

    Other planes spotted that day are:

    * MASwings ATR 72-500 (9M-MWI)

    * MASwings Viking Air DHC-6 Twin Otter Series 400 (9M-SSA)

    * Hornbill Skyways Beech B200GT Super King AirĀ (9M-WSB)

    And will upload it here later.Ā  And all of these shots are impossible without the assistance of Giovanni Lawai Laing, who borrowed one of his cameras so i could cover the coverage and also spotting at that time as well. Sincere thanks for allowing me to use his camera and his lens too for the occasion.

    Nice coverage bro!Ā 

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