Two 10-year-old Boeing 787 Dreamliners are already being scrapped
Jacopo Prisco, CNN
Published 6:55 AM EST, Fri March 10, 2023
If you’re in the market for a pair of lightly used widebody aircraft, you better head to Scotland fast and put in an offer — before two Boeing
787-8s formerly flying for Norwegian Air Shuttle get stripped for parts.
Both planes are under 10 years old, as they were delivered in June and
August 2013. Except for a testbed scrapped by Boeing in 2018, these are
the first Dreamliners to be retired, and their disassembly, which began in early March, is taking place at Prestwick Airport near Glasgow, Scotland.
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EirTrade has previous experience in scrapping young widebody aircraft,
having worked on retired A380s from Singapore Airlines and Air France that
were also about a decade old.
“The 787 is a very new aircraft and it’s probably hard for people outside of aviation to get their head around this,” says Lee Carey, VP of asset management at Eirtrade, who points to upkeep costs as one of the reasons
the planes are being cut up. “They were coming up to their 12-year check,
the heaviest maintenance event that’s going to happen on these aircraft.”
…
As many other 787s that are still flying are also coming up to this
landmark maintenance event, demand for parts will spike, making the
operation economically viable.
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https://edition.cnn.com/travel/article/10-year-old-boeing-787s-scrapped/index.html
не за друго, но все още има доста B-52, които летят.
вярно, че пандемията доста съсипа авиокомпаниите, но ми се струва
прекалено да се разглобяват за резервни части толкова нови самолети (imho).
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