US A330 hit by truck in CLT
Jan 7, 2015, 6:07 pm
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US A330 hit by truck in CLT, likely total loss.
That is a catering truck and is not a contract vendor. Definitely in house employees and a company owned truck.
Jan 8, 2015, 12:39 am
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Old news, happened on December 1st, in Charlotte. N288AY was not hit by any CLEANING (It was a cleaning truck not a catering) truck in Philly.
Jan 8, 2015, 1:30 am
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Jeebus...
Jan 8, 2015, 2:10 am
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Looks like someone wanted to add this 332 to the PSA Heritage livery.
Jan 8, 2015, 6:22 am
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Since I'm guessing US doesn't have a bunch of spare A333's lying around, how will this effect upcoming flights that are scheduled on A333's?
Jan 8, 2015, 10:06 am
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It is an A330-200 and fortunately it happened during our seasonal international pulldown, where we go from our high A330-utilization summer to low winter seasons. So it does not effect any flights.
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Jan 8, 2015, 12:28 pm
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There was an internal doc posted over on airliners.net, probably inappropriately, that indicated an estimated mid-Jan return to service for this plane. The doc itself detailed the errors the driver made on the CLT ramp and reminded drivers of various safety protocols.
Jan 8, 2015, 1:03 pm
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Jan 8, 2015, 1:04 pm
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Link please?
Jan 8, 2015, 1:41 pm
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Jan 9, 2015, 2:21 am
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Jan 10, 2015, 6:56 am
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Jan 10, 2015, 9:14 pm
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If this Aircraft is written off as many here in CLT are speculating, look for a transatlantic destination such as CLT-DUB to get down gauged to a 757. Also, I recently noticed that the second CLT- LHR flight is being discontinued in late October 2015. Does anyone have insight into why this flight is going seasonal or is being cancelled? Looks like the second PHL-LHR flight is still loaded into the res system through December 2015.
Jan 11, 2015, 1:45 am
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If this Aircraft is written off as many here in CLT are speculating, look for a transatlantic destination such as CLT-DUB to get down gauged to a 757. Also, I recently noticed that the second CLT- LHR flight is being discontinued in late October 2015. Does anyone have insight into why this flight is going seasonal or is being cancelled? Looks like the second PHL-LHR flight is still loaded into the res system through December 2015.
As for CLT-LHR, I still see 2x daily service scheduled through out October, November, December both on A330-300s. And I checked usairways.com, aa.com, kayak.com and other systems. Which system are you looking at that shows only one daily flight?
Jan 11, 2015, 7:39 am
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If N288AY is written off, then yes I see your point. But if I am not mistaken there is currently one A330-300 and one A330-200 not scheduled in the system for this summer, so if 288 is written off then that does not affect the summer schedule, no? Please correct me if I am wrong.
As for CLT-LHR, I still see 2x daily service scheduled through out October, November, December both on A330-300s. And I checked usairways.com, aa.com, kayak.com and other systems. Which system are you looking at that shows only one daily flight?
As for CLT-LHR, I still see 2x daily service scheduled through out October, November, December both on A330-300s. And I checked usairways.com, aa.com, kayak.com and other systems. Which system are you looking at that shows only one daily flight?
Last edited by Cltfc; Jan 11, 2015 at 7:46 am Reason: mistake made in date