NBC on Schedule?
Jun 10, 2003 | 10:48 am
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NBC on Schedule?
I know that CX was planning to finish installing the NBC by the end of this year. i wonder if SARS and cost-cutting postphone CX's target date? Does anyone know?
Jun 10, 2003 | 4:35 pm
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If anything it has increased the proportion of NBC planes in service (and some out of service are being retrofitted). I heard somewhere that over 80% of the current rotation is with NBC (but I wasn't paying much attention, sorry).
Jun 11, 2003 | 8:37 am
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The number of 74Js and 744s (vs. 74B which is OBC) on CX's website between 1/2003 and today has not changed at all, indicating that conversion to NBC has not occurred so far this year. A conversion schedule posted in this forum by a CX insider (presumably) a few months back purported to show that all but 2, IIRC, of the nineteen 747-400s will have been converted to NBC by midyear 2003. SARS didn't hit hard until March/April so I don't know what held up the conversion earlier this year.
Jun 11, 2003 | 1:13 pm
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<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by bp888:
The number of 74Js and 744s (vs. 74B which is OBC) on CX's website between 1/2003 and today has not changed at all, indicating that conversion to NBC has not occurred so far this year. A conversion schedule posted in this forum by a CX insider (presumably) a few months back purported to show that all but 2, IIRC, of the nineteen 747-400s will have been converted to NBC by midyear 2003. SARS didn't hit hard until March/April so I don't know what held up the conversion earlier this year.</font>
The number of 74Js and 744s (vs. 74B which is OBC) on CX's website between 1/2003 and today has not changed at all, indicating that conversion to NBC has not occurred so far this year. A conversion schedule posted in this forum by a CX insider (presumably) a few months back purported to show that all but 2, IIRC, of the nineteen 747-400s will have been converted to NBC by midyear 2003. SARS didn't hit hard until March/April so I don't know what held up the conversion earlier this year.</font>
