Originally Posted by thadocta
(Seems to me that the Mumbai flights would be better suited to the 332, since they have longer legs, would need the floor strengthening issues to be resolved though).
Dave
But with it being a two-sector route now, there is the opportunity to charge two Fuel Surcharges if they use the A330 and stop in Darwin
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I heard the floor strengthening process would cost $20M - but not sure if that is for one aircraft or all 4 of them? Probably no point in paying the costs now and just move them to JQ or AO when they shiny new aircraft arrive next decade
. A much as the A332's are not ideally suited to domestic services, there is not a lot of options in the current fleet. Though A332 with Dreamtimes is probably a better option for some of the medium international services than 763 or 743 with Dreamtimes (thinking BOM, NRT, MNL) and start to make use of the A332's range capability.