I walked away from a purchase of 2x MAS B734 aircraft earlier this year; MAS couldn’t provide all the required technical history. One of those aircraft is now being scrapped in UK.
Phixer
From: cactus-wings@googlegroups.com [mailto:cactus-wings@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of matt weber
Sent: 5-December-2012 13:53
To: cactus-wings@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: [cactuswings 2032] Storage News
I doubt that the market for A330-300 is bad. It actually quite good, however MAS maintenance procedures have sometimes left a certain amount to be desired. QANTAS ended up having to
retire an ex-MH 744 quite early after they discovered that the aircraft in fact had hidden (and serious) damage from some work done at MH years earlier. So it is possible the aircraft has a problem that isn't worth repairing.
The secondary issue is that if the A330-300 is fairly old, it isn't especially capable. There have been a number of engine and MGTOW upgrades to the A330 over the years, so that today's A330-300 is actually far more capable than the original A330-300. So the market for an early A330-300 may not be very good....
At 12:49 AM 12/5/2012, you wrote:
Someone reminded me of this today:
"And to add, a couple of weeks ago (plus one in October) a Malaysian
A333 to TUP. I didn't know the market for A330s was so bad that
they're cutting them up now."
http://flightaware.com/live/flight/MAS5448/history/20121126/1500Z/KPDX/KTUP
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