Still leaves the mystery as to the aircraft—I know the -500 was the ULH queen
till the B77L came in and did it cheaper, despite its ETOPS restrictions. No
registration or database I have access to shows a current Saudi flagged A340,
let alone a -500. Would be hell of a biz-jet though. Connect any two points on
the globe with no restrictions on traversing desolate routes.
> On Jul 13, 2016, at 7:05 AM, Ken Norton <ken@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> I wouldn't know why it wouldn't be a 500. The CFM56-engined A340s are
> mostly parked or repurposed as freighters. There are still a few
> operators of them, but the 777 has slaughtered them.
>
> The VIP versions of the A340s are almost all CFM56, I believe. My
> understanding is that the VIPs and military transport models are
> almost all earlier 200 and 300 models.
>
> Since 2009, the A340 fleet has been largely decimated and reconfigured
> or changed operators. I think that Emirates and Etihad changed over
> from A340s to A380s and 777s as their primary two-tier models. That
> would have put their off-lease 500s on the market. A 500 or 600 would
> be pretty good for the long non-stop global reach application with no
> ETOPS restrictions.
>
> AG (not CFM56-equipped) Schnozz
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