Virgin rules out returning the remaining parked 777s into service.

[Mwenenzi]

VPE is out of Wellcamp and its way to BNE before heading off to NAN (and onward to their US based financier/bank), assumably for longer term storage.

VH-VPE Flight Tracking and History - FlightAware

Track VH-VPE flight from Raddison Pier to Cairns Int'l

flightaware.com

From casa

Aircraft register

www.casa.gov.au

VPE
Aircraft manufacturer:
THE BOEING COMPANY
Aircraft model:
777-3ZGER

Registration holder:
UMB BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION
6440 S Millrock Dr Suite 400
SALT LAKE CITY UT 84121
United States of America

Registered operator:
DE LORE AND ASSOCIATES PTY LTD
43 Grosvenor St
BALMORAL Qld 4171
Australia

 

[eastwest101]

Wonder why not non-stop?

Maybe the ferry flight crew (US crew?) may need to clear Australian customs in BNE? May not have customs and immigration stuff at Wellcamp?

Or maybe a safety thing to make sure all landing gear and flaps etc cycle once and confirm all working okay, before heading out over the vast Pacific ocean?

Or might be a duty hours thing for the ferry crew if there are only 2 or 3 crew?

 

[Mwenenzi]

Maybe the ferry flight crew (US crew?) may need to clear Australian customs in BNE? May not have customs and immigration stuff at Wellcamp?

Wellcamp has international cargo flights, so will have some immigration/customs. But they may be bused in/flown in from BNE.

Toowoomba Wellcamp Airport - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[HS-TQE]

VPE is scheduled to leave BNE for NAN in about 35 minutes (at the time of this post). Assumably it's the ferry crew appointed by the bank/financiers of VPE.

 

[Saab34]

Interesting to note it’s being operated by a ferrying company set up by an ex Virgin 777 Captain.

 

[AIRwin]

VPE is now in HNL... Aloha!

 

[AIRwin]

VPE has arrived in VCV...

 

[jb747]

VOZ has since returned to the lessor and leased out to a Russian Charter operator.....

I wonder if that now means it has been "disappeared"?

 

[HS-TQE]

I wonder if that now means it has been "disappeared"?

Potentially may sadly being 'parted' for parts as we speak. Who knows?

 

[Saab34]

So do the airlines get a chance to pull things out like seats, IFE or other bits and pieces from the cabin? Or are the seats also leased?

 

[HS-TQE]

So do the airlines get a chance to pull things out like seats, IFE or other bits and pieces from the cabin? Or are the seats also leased?

I do recall VA (and TT) pulled out the J and Y seats from many of the 737s that never returned from its lessors (and eventually made its way on a few of the ex-SilkAir units).

 

[AIRwin]

I do recall VA (and TT) pulled out the J and Y seats from many of the 737s that never returned from its lessors

But not from the ones Rex took over...