Melburnian1
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This is lifted from an interview with Sir Tim Clark of Emirates:
Clark: Two A380s that we have identified to be most economic for us will be taken out of service in 2020. The first A380 delivered, registered A6-EDA, will only drop out in 2021 or 2022. That’s because of the financial arrangements with those aircraft, some of which are leased. There is a plan to bring us down over the next decade to recognize that they can’t fly forever, unfortunately, and cost of maintenance will rise as they get older. We have to do some major landing gear changes, originally after ten years of service, we pushed it out to twelve years. We need to rob the gear of those rather than spend $US25m for new gear. We just take them off those retired aircraft and recycle their gears. To take the gear out to overhaul it, you got to have a replacement gear, otherwise, both aircraft don’t fly. The lessors have to decide what to do with the aircraft we return to them. You never know, we may decide we want them back again. But we’ll give them a price that we are determining, not them. Otherwise,, they’ll sit on the ground doing nothing.
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Is this a problem for SQ, QF and other A380 operators? EK has 113 of these, far more than any other airline.
Clark: Two A380s that we have identified to be most economic for us will be taken out of service in 2020. The first A380 delivered, registered A6-EDA, will only drop out in 2021 or 2022. That’s because of the financial arrangements with those aircraft, some of which are leased. There is a plan to bring us down over the next decade to recognize that they can’t fly forever, unfortunately, and cost of maintenance will rise as they get older. We have to do some major landing gear changes, originally after ten years of service, we pushed it out to twelve years. We need to rob the gear of those rather than spend $US25m for new gear. We just take them off those retired aircraft and recycle their gears. To take the gear out to overhaul it, you got to have a replacement gear, otherwise, both aircraft don’t fly. The lessors have to decide what to do with the aircraft we return to them. You never know, we may decide we want them back again. But we’ll give them a price that we are determining, not them. Otherwise,, they’ll sit on the ground doing nothing.
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Is this a problem for SQ, QF and other A380 operators? EK has 113 of these, far more than any other airline.
