A330 : Version Passagers ; toute la famille

Beochien a écrit:Bonjour !

Go Airlines, devant une forte croissance du traffic , + 20 % veut accélérer les livraisons des 10 A330 restant en cde !
Reste à savoir si cela sera possible pour Airbus !
Et si les changements impromptus des cies Indiennes peuvent être suivis comme cela !
Vous m'en metterez 10 deplus demain, et 10 de moins après demain !! dur à gérer !
Vu par Jeannot en Fr ! sur A.news !

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NEW DELHI -- GoAirlines (India) Pvt. Ltd. said Monday it is talking to Airbus to advance the delivery of 10 planes by about a year to capitalize on a rebound in air travel in the country.

The operator of the GoAir budget carrier can expand faster if it can advance the delivery, Chief Executive Kaushik Khona told a news conference. "I can improve my operations and bottom line."

Airlines in India have been reporting increasing traffic since the middle of last year as the economy emerged out of a slowdown. GoAirlines and its local rivals carried 29.87 million passengers during January-July this year, up 21% from a year earlier, according to the civil aviation ministry.

India's market for air travel is expected to grow further and local carriers, especially the low-cost ones, are expanding fleet size to meet the demand: InterGlobe Enterprises Ltd.-run IndiGo earlier this year took government approval to buy 150 planes, while SpiceJet Ltd. said recently it would order 30 planes from Boeing Co.

GoAirlines ordered 20 Airbus planes in 2007 for $1.2 billion. About half of the aircraft have been delivered.

Mr. Khona said the company is in talks with Airbus to advance the delivery of the remaining aircraft to March 2013 from the earlier planned April 2014. "We are asking Airbus and we are hopeful we will get the delivery early."

Mr. Khona said he is "very bullish" about future growth in the Indian air travel market, which will likely be boosted by the Commonwealth Games in New Delhi in October and the festival season that starts around the same time.

"We will achieve a complete breakeven by one-and-a-half years from now," Mr. Khona said. "We are improving aircraft utilization, costs are in control."

GoAirlines is yet to decide on funding for the 10 aircraft it is going to get from Airbus, he said. "The pre-delivery payment funding is being made from our books. Near the delivery time, we will decide whether we want to go for sale and lease plan or we want to go for export credit agencies."

He said GoAirlines is yet to decide on an initial public offering.

GoAirlines currently isn't considering flying overseas as it doesn't fulfill the requirement of at least 20 aircraft. It is meanwhile looking to expand in the local market as "there is lot to be exploited here," Mr. Khona added.

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Airbus is set to reveal plans for a maximum gross weight increase of its Airbus A330-300 widebody.

The 2t increase, to 235t, will allow the aircraft to operate an additional 120nm (220km) or carry an extra 1.2t payload.

In 2008, Airbus announced a weight increase on its A330-200. At the time, the manufacturer raised the maximum gross weight by an additional 5t to 238t.

Flight International understands that Airbus management will by the end of the year sign off the commercial authorisation to launch the variant.

As of 31 October, Airbus had clocked up 66 net orders for A330s, including 38 -300s and 28 -200s.

Hawaiian Airlines orders six more A330-200s
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Hawaiian Airlines has placed a firm order for an additional six Airbus A330-200s. The long-range, widebody twinjets will join Hawaiian's fleet of three A330s and an existing backlog of seven A330-200s and six A350 XWBs.The carrier became an Airbus operator for the first time earlier this year.Hawaiian's A330-200s seat 294 passengers in a two-class configuration. The six additional aircraft will be powered by Rolls-Royce Trent 700 engines. "These additional widebody A330s will give us more flexibility to pursue domestic and international expansion opportunities, replace our existing Boeing 767 fleet and improve our ability to compete profitably in the coming years," says Mark Dunkerley, Hawaiian Airlines CEO.

Airbus is to offer carriers a higher-weight A330-300 from the fourth quarter of this year, taking the maximum take-off weight (MTOW) to 235t.

Raising the MTOW would extend the range by 135nm (250km) with a typical 300-passenger load, or provide a 1.4t payload increase at a range above 4,200nm. TUI Group is ordering a pair of the jets, with 362 seats, for its French division Corsair.

Airbus has identified the new weight variant as WV54. It will offer a 2t increase in MTOW over its predecessor, the WV52, and 5t above the baseline WV50. The airframer says that design-load analysis indicates that the 2t increase is achievable if it is "compensated" by a 2t reduction in maximum zero-fuel weight, to 173t.

Maximum landing weight, 187t, will remain unchanged from the WV52. Local structural modifications will be required for the new airframe - including changes of rivets in the forward lower fuselage shell - but these will have "negligible impact" on aircraft empty weight. Part of the change has already been implemented as part of A330-200 production.

Airbus says it wants to increase the payload-range performance of the A330-300 while "taking full benefit of demonstrated wing structural capability".

Maximum aft position of the centre-of-gravity has been reduced at the higher weight, to keep vertical static load on the main landing-gear unchanged.

"These improvements have been achieved with little impact on the aircraft's operability, meaning that the aircraft will be able to use most of the existing runways and the airport take-off slots without penalty," says Airbus.

Take-off and go-around thrust are unchanged on the higher-weight variant, which will require a 70-90m (230-300ft) increase in take-off distance.

But while the Rolls-Royce Trent 772- and Pratt & Whitney PW4170-powered versions of the aircraft will meet QC2 take-off noise criteria, slight engine modification will be needed for certain airframes equipped with General Electric CF6-80E1s.

The A4 model of the GE powerplant will fall within the QC2 threshold, says Airbus, but not the A3 model.

In order to bring the latter into line, GE is developing a nacelle modification and noise tests are scheduled to take place in the first quarter of this year, with certification planned for the third quarter.

Although the engine modification will be available through retrofit, Airbus is not offering the higher-weight airframe as a retrofit package. But it says this possibility "will be investigated...depending on customer requests".

Airbus expects delivery slots for the new A330-300 variant to become available from the first quarter of 2012. Its A330-300 backlog at the end of 2010 stood at 141 aircraft.