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Posted by Noel Newland on 4/15/2009, 6:02 pm, in reply to "PAL sends new 777f's to desert (Pacific news update)"
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: Hello every one just to update some news for
: all people who visit this site. PAL have
: sent to new 777 freighter aircraft to Majove
: storage facility today. Boeing has ferried
: them across there. FedEx have interest in
: them as they are grounding there DC10 fleet
: to the desert and the 777's are more
: economical for the cargo company.
:
: Qantas Airways (Australia)
: Boeing comfirmed yesterday that four A380
: super jumbo's have being Defered along with
: orders from Boeing for a further 12 737-800
: and the 787 Dreamliner jets have being
: canceled. Qantas announced yesterday that
: 1700 jobs will be lost as a result of
: negitave profit and the future forecast
: looks grim for the Kangaroo airline with
: more lay off's exspected. Qantas has decided
: to bring back out of storage three older 744
: aircraft which were due to be ferried to the
: Desert will now be re deployed for service
: due to cut backs in aircraft. Mind you they
: are running there jets at risk on a very
: fine line.
: I will keep you up to date with further
: developments as they come to hand.
: ZK-NBT-744 ZK=NBS another 744 from AIR NEW
: ZEALAND will be retired from the fleet some
: time this year. Thank you
:
: Regards
: Willie Singh for Fleetwing former paa pilot
: PAN AMERICAN WORLD AIRWAYS
:
:Hi Willie and other Pan Am former employess and many people who visit this site. I work for AIR NZ and will be retiring from the airline next week after forty years service with the airline. I have being there since the days of the DC-8-52 the change of name from TEAL (TASMAN EMPIRE AIRWAYS) which was renamed Air New Zealand and our wonderful DC10-30 jets back in that era. I can tell you that two of the older 747-419's Have being sold off before there retirement date this year to Virgin Atlantic and ZK-NBV ZK-NBW two more 747-419's exspected to retire in late 2010. I have seen the up's and downs of AIR NZ and watch sadly the fall of such a exprenced airline PAN AM disappear. Now our friend's from over the sea in Australia are shaking as well. Soon Qantas NZ will have alot of there flights cancelled or might dissapear like as ANSETT NZ which was owned by ANSETT AUSTRALIA. But my best memorie was back in 1979 of two aircraft side by side at AKL airport on the morning of 22nd November 1979 our DC10-30 ZK-NZP which crash five days later in the ANTARTICA killing all 257 passengers and a loss of a wide bodied jet. The other aircraft was PAN AM'S 747-121 Clipper Maid Of The Sea's N739PA nosed up at the gate 4 and ZK-NZP at gate 2. those two jets perished and not to be seen again. I will always remeber this great experinced airline PAN AM and seeing for the first time the largest passenger aircraft in the world land here at AKL airport. Fantastic.I wish everyone well from the former PAA staff in NZ and my friends from AIR NZ and Qantas the very best in the future. Lets hope these future carriers don't dissapear. Thank you
Noel Newland former AIR NZ employee 1965-2009
F/A---F/O engineer Auckland airport
home of AIR NEW ZEALAND
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