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Originally posted by SQ228 View PostSQF is normally used on SQ950/3, SQ958/9 and SQ966/7 every day. Until it stops showing up on databases for those flights for at least a week, you have to assume that is the plane you would get on those flights. We have very plausible theories on here about when it may disappear from the fleet, but unless you work in the SQ plane rostering division, they are just theories.
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SRG is gone for all intents and purposes. No traces of flights for over a month.
The question is whether SQF goes next or another of the SR* series. DXB is no longer in the 773 rotation, having been switched to 77W due to the arrival of SWU/V but I can't see any flights that have been added to the 773 rotation in DXB's place. They just seem to be flying the same flights but with more gaps.
Perhaps once LHR goes daily SWU/V then the use of standard 77W will become more efficient and this in turn will allow the SWA-T fleet to pick up another flight out of the 773 pool, thus freeing up a 773 to assume SQF's 'F-cabin duties'.
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Originally posted by SQ228 View PostSRG is gone for all intents and purposes. No traces of flights for over a month.
The question is whether SQF goes next or another of the SR* series. DXB is no longer in the 773 rotation, having been switched to 77W due to the arrival of SWU/V but I can't see any flights that have been added to the 773 rotation in DXB's place. They just seem to be flying the same flights but with more gaps.
Perhaps once LHR goes daily SWU/V then the use of standard 77W will become more efficient and this in turn will allow the SWA-T fleet to pick up another flight out of the 773 pool, thus freeing up a 773 to assume SQF's 'F-cabin duties'.
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Originally posted by cscs1956 View PostThis was a very old one?
http://www.airliners.net/photo/Boein...281e3d5c4208e3
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Originally posted by kevin-sg View PostThe aircraft isn't very old, only like 12yrs (?), why was it scrapped? I wonder.
It could have been sold or gone to Scoot?
http://www.planespotters.net/Product...321LF-ILFC.php
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Originally posted by kevin-sg View PostThe aircraft isn't very old, only like 12yrs (?), why was it scrapped? I wonder.
It could have been sold or gone to Scoot?
Based on the SV* refurb program where the planes being refitted are over 12 years old, it could suggest there's not a lot of money to be made selling old 772s at present.
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Originally posted by SQ228 View PostIt was about 14yo but not as old as SQA which went to Scoot.
Based on the SV* refurb program where the planes being refitted are over 12 years old, it could suggest there's not a lot of money to be made selling old 772s at present.
Younger than 12 years old: Value of parts > Resale value
Older than 12 years old: Resale value > Value of parts
So it may make more sense to scrap a plane and salvage the individual partsLast edited by FSJZ; 19 October 2013, 11:59 PM.
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Originally posted by FSJZ View PostMy guess is that:
Younger than 12 years old: Value of parts > Resale value
Older than 12 years old: Resale value > Value of parts
So it may make more sense to scrap a plane and salvage the individual parts
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Originally posted by wlgspotter View PostI read somewhere (sorry can't remember exactly where but probably on airliners.net) that apparently SQG had quite a high number of cycles, and that it seemed to be one of the "more problematic" aircraft in their fleet hence it was better scrapped for parts than transfer it to Scoot.
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