Airline News

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Air Mauritius A343 3B-NAV (094) has become EI-EHZ with AWAS & was noted all white at Brussels on 25/11.

Cathay Pacific B744 B-HKD (26548) was noted all white at Hong Kong on 21/11 prior to return to the lessor.

Emirates B773 A6-ECX (38982) left Paine Field, WA on 25/11 on its delivery flight to Dubai. A345 A6-ERG (608), which suffered a tail strike at Melbourne on 20/3, made a test flight from Toulouse on 24/11 following repairs & left for Dubai the same day as UAE999. It had been ferried unpressurized from Melbourne to Toulouse between 19/6 & 22/6 & the repair cost was estimated at $80 million at that time.

FedEx B777F N853FD (37724) was delivered from Paine Field, WA to Memphis, TN on 24/11. This is the second of thirty ordered by the airline.

No Gulf Air return to Sydney now. Gulf Air is to sell five of its A343s as it changes strategy to concentrate of short-haul rather than long-haul routes. The airline is to shift its order book from wide-body to narrow-body aircraft & regional jets. How this will affect its orders for twenty A333s & twenty-four B788s is unclear.