SAA to lease 2 A350-900s for JNB-JFK route
Per World Airline News (I'm unable to link in this post), 2 A350-900s will be arriving in the second half of this year, 30 business class seats, 246 economy.
SAA has not said where they're leasing them from, but might be Hainan, according to @schallies2 on Twitter? |
Any further news on this? I' haven't seen anything anywhere. I have an upcoming flight JFK-JNB in early September and it's showing the 340-600.
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Originally Posted by SSF556
(Post 31470396)
Wish they were on they IAD - JNB route....
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Originally Posted by motthew
(Post 31470491)
IAD-JNB at least has the new A330s, right? I wonder if a growing A350 fleet could allow for a non-stop IAD-JNB (if there's enough demand to support that).
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Originally Posted by SSF556
(Post 31473113)
Yes which is a plus....but the the overall experience is much better with the A350.
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Originally Posted by motthew
(Post 31470491)
IAD-JNB at least has the new A330s, right? I wonder if a growing A350 fleet could allow for a non-stop IAD-JNB (if there's enough demand to support that).
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Originally Posted by evanb
(Post 31473156)
Absolutely the A350 could do IAD-JNB non-stop, but I don't see it happening since the route is as much about the JNB-ACC and ACC-IAD legs for SAA.
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Originally Posted by SSF556
(Post 31473250)
The A350 can stop in ACC just like an A330
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Originally Posted by evanb
(Post 31473149)
There has been much speculation and confusing information from SAA themselves on it, so I don't think one can say yet.
To my knowledge, SAA's only public statement has been to announce that 2 airframes would be coming at the end of September and would be deployed to JFK in the W19 schedule period. Nothing more, nothing less. The media has speculated wildly as to where these 2 frames are coming from, whether additional frames are coming, what will happen to the A340s, etc... but SAA has remained silent on all of these. |
Originally Posted by B747-437B
(Post 31474104)
Just curious what information SAA themselves have put out that is confusing?
To my knowledge, SAA's only public statement has been to announce that 2 airframes would be coming at the end of September and would be deployed to JFK in the W19 schedule period. Nothing more, nothing less. The media has speculated wildly as to where these 2 frames are coming from, whether additional frames are coming, what will happen to the A340s, etc... but SAA has remained silent on all of these. Furthermore, it indicated that the lease was going to be three years. Given that these aircraft could only be coming from MK (C28Y298), HU/HX (C33Y301) or JJ (C30Y318, although sometimes incorrectly described as C30W63Y246), it's confusing since it seems as though they may have even gotten the number of economy seats wrong in the press statement. |
Looks like registrations have been allocated for the first 2 A350-900s.
https://www.ch-aviation.com/portal/n...ines-a350-900s According to a Department of Transport filing on August 30, SAA will add ZS-SDC (msn 226) and ZS-SDD (msn 245) which are currently in service for Hainan Airlines (HU, Haikou) as B-304Z and B-305A respectively. |
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Originally Posted by B747-437B
(Post 31488842)
Looks like registrations have been allocated for the first 2 A350-900s.
https://www.ch-aviation.com/portal/n...ines-a350-900s According to a Department of Transport filing on August 30, SAA will add ZS-SDC (msn 226) and ZS-SDD (msn 245) which are currently in service for Hainan Airlines (HU, Haikou) as B-304Z and B-305A respectively. |
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