Qatar Airways took delivery of three new Airbus A350-1000s yesterday, but that’s not even the interesting part of the story…
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You’ve got similar things in shipping too. Build a vessel in country X, sail to a neighbouring country and sail back. This is for tax purposes (VAT refund I believe). Believe there is also a restriction on sailing between Taiwan and mainland ports, and this is solved by “calling” a certain island outside Taiwan’s territorial waters.
This has been covered so many times on FlightRadar24's blog, and was on their Twitter feed post that uses effectively the same screenshot as yours, I'm surprised this can even be passed off as news …
I suppose it is quiet times.
Given that Qatar threatened to stop doing business with any company that forced it to take delivery of aircraft it didn't want, Airbus and Qatar clearly came to a meeting of the minds.
Some of us don’t read FlightRadar24’s blog, so it is news to us. Maybe you should stick with FlightRadar24 and not waste your time with Ben’s blog.
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You probably know the A380 forum "a380.boards.net" (which doesn't exclusively focus on the A380 but also on many other aircraft types from Airbus and even Boeing and others).
The topic of delivery flights from Airbus facilities (Toulouse as well as Hamburg) entering british (or in other cases swiss) airspace due to "contractural reasons" has been discussed on that forum on several occasions, regarding deliveries to Qatar Airways, TAP Portugal, Asiana and others). I don't remember if there ever was anyone able to give a comprehensive explanation, but you might find some answers there.
In the future, these planes will have to quarantine for 14 days in British airspace before they can proceed to Qatar.
52 A350s?!
This is hard to fathom when you review the fleets of the very large international airlines in US, Europe, and East Asia.
Is it normal to take on this many large wide bodies in such a short time? 52 seems like a number that would be achieved over a decade or more.
Is P&L not a thing at Qatar?
Have to say love Qatar and I hope these new ones do all the Australian airports as flying 14 hours has to be profitable both ways. Pre the China Flue the planes were full both ways . Gotta love an airline being inventive and welcoming. See you soon Doha. Hopefully Joe B supports them and welcomes them into as many US ports as possible when he becomes your President to keep the US Airlines on their toes.