Re: [cactuswings 1891] REQ - Jet Airways 737s at Greenwood

Anyone know why N739A 737-700 of ARAMCO was retired? I shouldn't think
the problems below would apply to that airframe.

Cheers

Jim

>
> 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
>> http://www.aerotransport.org
>>
>
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