Qatar Airways to acquire 25% of Virgin Australia

[Harrison_133]

Wonder if they could possibly end up in VA colours.

American Airlines Abandoned Their Airbus A330s – Now Qatar Airways May Give Them New Life - View from the Wing

Even though the Airbus A330-200s were parked four and a half years ago, that fleet is still only about 13 years old on average. It was larger in quantity and newer than the 9 orphan -300s which were certainly on the way out, even without the pandemic. These planes were ex-US Airways, from...

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The A330s won't have the range for Doha - Australia.

 

[HS-TQE]

More likely I'd be tipping that QR will use the A330s for regional ops, freeing up the 77Ws required for the wetlease VA ops.

 

[justinbrett]

That's a shocking excuse that could be used in any situation.

We're flying somewhere else new so we'll wet lease with foreign workforce back over there.

C'mon mate, severely locked those blinkers on haven't you.

Shocking? Really? A bit precious, don’t you think?

Lots of major airlines wet lease to fill temporary shortfalls in their capacity - NZ, BA, even QR!

We all know the VA deal is about increasing QR capacity. I mean, VA literally called it Project Doubles. They’re not even trying to hide it. If it was for a new route like SYD-LAX maybe, but let’s call this for what it is.