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Oct 29, 2004, 12:32 am

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Originally Posted by notsosmart

Thanks for that correction. So long Megatop, I guess?

They have been phasing out the 744's for a while now and are down to under 30 now I believe. More will go when the 773ER's start arriving as SQ (despite owning 49% of them) are going the opposite of VS and prefer 2 engines over 4, purely down to the economics.

Speaking to the IFS on SIN-EWR recently, they don't seem to be overly impressed with the A345's performance and I think that may well get replaced by the 772LR when it becomes available. Again preferring the economics of 2 engines against 4.

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