As I recall Jet Airways was a pretty early user of the 737-700. In fact the first -700 I flew on was on Jet Airways out of IXZ (now there is an off the beaten path airport) in 1999.
The decision to part out the aircraft is usually driven more by condition than configuration. This is a especially unpleasant problem when the carrier returning the aircraft is in
serious financial difficulty. While the lease agreement generally spells out the required conditions at end of lease, as a practical matter the contract gets ignored when the carrier is in
serious financial difficulty. Parts are migrated to the aircraft being returned from all over the fleet into airframes that probably are close to D-check, the engines will be at operating limits, life limited components will generally be at end of life, and non-essential bits (galley, APU, lavs etc) will be inoperative.
Basically what gets returned is a pile of junk. The carrier of course gets billed for the cost of repair, but those claims are unsecured, so unlikely to ever be paid. It just makes more sense
to part out the aircraft than spend the tens of millions of dollars to make it commercially viable again.
At 08:19 AM 7/29/2012, you wrote:
6 737-700 have so far been parted out: 3 EasyJet, 2 Lauda, 1 ARAMCO
Alexandre Avrane.
AeroTransport Data Bank
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