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Old Apr 2, 2021 | 2:41 pm
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mafaky
 
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REgarding TK's long range / wide body fleet (current and near future):
1) I wonder if TK will be interested in P2F conversions for a couple of Boeing 77W and or Airbus 333s in the current fleet. Not only these frames are getting older as years pass by, but they are becoming less feasible for pax & belly cargo ops., in the presence of never generation 789s & 359s. This assumes as when there will be 15 frames each from 789 & 359 in the fleet...
2) Next, I wonder if the rumored 332 tanker conversions will be materialised for TUAF.
3) I also wonder if TK will soon get rid of the three ex-Wow 333s on dry-lease (operational lease) and also convert a few existing 333 frames to all-economy cabins for future Hadj & Umrah ops.
4) It's inevitable that a single 333 (TC-JOM) leased from Afriqiyah and the 3 (three) ex-Kenyan leased 77Ws will be returned. But TK will still have a 30-strong 77W fleet (with 12 of them started aging in these years, anyway) and a 29-strong 333 fleet. Some of these can be converted cargo planes after a P2F conversion, some of them can convert for economy class only cabins for Hadj/Umrah/Charter ops. Some 77W can even be re-converted into 28C372Y cabins like the ex-Kenyans dedicated to ops. with higher economy capacity (but still retaining the 3-3-3 setup: the 3-4-3 setups in 77Ws is indeed dreadful!!!) What may be TK's strategies?
5) Finally, I also wonder the future of TK's 7(seven) leased 333s (the ex-Skymark birds) which have a dense cabin suited for medium range regional flights (Europe, up to mid-Africa, Middle east and even Pakistan and Bengladesh). Will these be prematurely returned to the lessor? Note that two of the ex-Wow birds leased (mentioned above) are also from this ex-Skymark fleet but should have have accumulated more flight hours & cycles than TK's leased ex-Skymark birds...
6) Anybody having heard anything about TK's re-structuring its 359 & 789 orders, say after 2022???
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