AirBlue to Get Two Airbus A340-300s on Lease from ILFC

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Re: AirBlue to Get Two Airbus A340-300s on Lease from ILFC

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The flight is being operated by both Air Blue and ILFC crew. Its supposed to depart IST at midnight with flight # ABQ003.
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Moin wrote:The flight is being operated by both Air Blue and ILFC crew. Its supposed to depart IST at midnight with flight # ABQ003.
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Islamabad airport aint showing arrival of any flight with this flight number.. why is it so?
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^ Usually aircraft ferry/delivery fights details are not displayed on airport's flight's arrivals/departures information display system.

They display information about scheduled passenger flights.

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Thank you Moin for the information, i hope the A340 is in Pakistan now :-k
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Re: AirBlue to Get Two Airbus A340-300s on Lease from ILFC

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Mazu wrote:
Moin wrote:The flight is being operated by both Air Blue and ILFC crew. Its supposed to depart IST at midnight with flight # ABQ003.
Moin Abbasi,

Islamabad airport aint showing arrival of any flight with this flight number.. why is it so?
Why would a ferry/delivery flight be shown on the arrivals board???
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Re: AirBlue to Get Two Airbus A340-300s on Lease from ILFC

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A340 arrived, just seen some photos on the unofficial airblue FB page.
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Its funny how their were no major announcements and water canon salute or any news about the routes by Airblue or on their website!
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Re: AirBlue to Get Two Airbus A340-300s on Lease from ILFC

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I saw the aircraft parked at a remote stand in LHE around 1645 PST today
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dabi wrote:Its funny how their were no major announcements and water canon salute or any news about the routes by Airblue or on their website!
there was water canon salute, i just saw another picture on FB.
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AirBlue Airbus A340-313X (AP-EDF) taking rest at Lahore's Allama Iqbal International Air Port on September 29. Photos taken with a cell phone camera by a friend of mine.

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Thai Airways Airbus A330-322 (HS-TEK) taxiing after its arrival from Bangkok as flight TG-345 (codeshare flight PK-1891 with PIA).

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nice, thanks Abbas for sharing the photos from Lahore...
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Re: AirBlue to Get Two Airbus A340-300s on Lease from ILFC

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Any particular reason for basing this aircraft at LHE? Isn't the aircraft supposed to used for ISB-MAN route initially?
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^ Probably after completion of aircraft import duty/tax paper work at Islamabad Airport, AirBlue, due to limited aircraft parking bays at Islamabad Airport, ferried A340 to Lahore Airport for temporary parking before introduction of the aircraft type on airline's Islamabad-Manchester-Islamabad flights.

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Second Airbus A340-313X (currently registered in Ireland as EI-ETY) of AirBlue has been ferried from Tarbes-Lourdes-Pyrénées Airport, France, to Istanbul Airport (IST), Turkey, where it will be painted in AirBlue livery.

Pakistani registration AP-EDE is reserved for this A340.

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Re: AirBlue to Get Two Airbus A340-300s on Lease from ILFC

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When will the first Airblue A340 enter commercial service?