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Wonder if these 4 A380s are the oldest and earlier built which likely have wing issues and needed some reworking as per Airbus directive. In any case, would doubt these oldest planes will be refitted even before the Covid19 happened.
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Originally posted by flyguy View PostWonder if these 4 A380s are the oldest and earlier built which likely have wing issues and needed some reworking as per Airbus directive. In any case, would doubt these oldest planes will be refitted even before the Covid19 happened.
One V1 (i.e. 1 of SKF-K) and three V2s (i.e. 3 of SKL-R) seems to be the consensus on how this group is made up, but I have no idea which specific registrations.
If that's the pattern flying out on Saturday night though, I think we have our answer. They'll then probably sit out their time in ASP before being returned to lessors.
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Originally posted by MainlyMiles View PostThe wing issue isn't actually that big a deal as any corrective action is covered by Airbus. I suspect these four are the leased ones - sold and leased back by SIA to raise capital in FY2010/11 (1), 2011/12 (1) and 2012/13 (2).
One V1 (i.e. 1 of SKF-K) and three V2s (i.e. 3 of SKL-R) seems to be the consensus on how this group is made up, but I have no idea which specific registrations.
If that's the pattern flying out on Saturday night though, I think we have our answer. They'll then probably sit out their time in ASP before being returned to lessors.
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Originally posted by a340-313x View PostIt does appear one of the leased birds is already refitted though... (if our information is correct that is)
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Originally posted by sbs2716g View PostSeem like SKK is the one on lease till 31 Aug 2020
SKN/SKS are the other two on lease. Not sure about the last one. Should be SKT?
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I don’t think there’s any significance as to which A380s they’re sending to ASP. It’s not difficult to return the planes to service from there. Sounds more like short term storage likely, because of a space constraint at Changi.
If I were to make a guess they’d likely send the ones which don’t need any working on (ie SKS SKT..etc) cos it’s during this time that they can do heavy maintenance and refits in the others.
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Still believed the 4 A380s would be SKF, SKG, SKH and SKI which are all about 11.4 years old to 12.2 years old. They will unlikely to return back to service, except for maybe 2 or so to cover for the "newer" A380s which will go for the cabin reconfiguration. And it would not be surprising for SQ to just have another 3 - 4 planes configuration and not for all its remaining A380s.
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