Official A330 Production/Flight Testing - 2014-2017

Geoff1947 · Wed Jul 12, 2017 6:27 pm

Brixerl wrote:
Geoff1947 wrote:
Brixerl wrote:
N508AV - MSN1508 - > status on airfleets.net for this frame is "on order" by Air Berlin?

Then air fleets is wrong !!

Maybe und wouldn't be the first time.

But:
In the financial statement of 2016 (published in may 2017) Air Berlin is talking about a new fleet-size of 17 A332's (14 in 2016). The three "new" are Ex-Evelop (1) and Ex-TAM (2). The last entered service end of may. The german magazine airliners.de wrote these days, they have inside information, that the number will grow to 22 (till 2019). Therefore I thought, this frame maybe the first for this batch (on the other hand, all AB-332s are PW-powered, MSN 1508 is RR-powered).

As KarelXWB mentioned in another thread, Air Berlin has ordered 339 neos. As far as I know two via Air Leas Corp. They seem to be for fleet renewal (the oldest two AB 332s are from 1999 and 2000) and not fleet-upsizing.

We will see.

I'm not saying this frame won't end up with Air Berlin but it can't be 'on order' as it is a used frame that is now in storage.

Geoff

KarelXWB · Wed Jul 12, 2017 7:18 pm

juliuswong wrote:
KarelXWB wrote:
Another Capital Airlines delivered:

Airbus A330 -243 1782 B-8982 Capital Airlines delivery 21jun17 TLS-TSN ex F-WWCM

Hi KarelXWB, I noticed that this particular bird is still in storage. It was flown to Tianjin. Could it be first A330 to be completed with cabin fit at TSN plant?

AFAIK MSN 1805 will be the first A330 to be outfitted in TSN. It will carry a Chinese test registration (B-005A).

Tianjin assembly workers are currently undergoing training in Toulouse. I have no further into on B-8982.

PM · Thu Jul 13, 2017 7:07 am

KarelXWB wrote:
Next delivery:

Airbus A330 -323 1793 B-8360 China Southern delivery 12jul17 TLS-CAN ex F-WWKI

Would I be correct in noting that this will be the last ever A330 with PW?

KarelXWB · Thu Jul 13, 2017 9:18 am

StTim wrote:
Is that the same route the 380 loads take?

Yep.

Below is the schedule for the next Beluga XL convoy:

KarelXWB · Thu Jul 13, 2017 9:19 am

PM wrote:
KarelXWB wrote:
Next delivery:

Airbus A330 -323 1793 B-8360 China Southern delivery 12jul17 TLS-CAN ex F-WWKI
Would I be correct in noting that this will be the last ever A330 with PW?

For the moment no further PW4000 A330s have been allocated to the production line.

PM · Thu Jul 13, 2017 9:36 am

KarelXWB wrote:

For the moment no further PW4000 A330s have been allocated to the production line.

And it is more than three years since an airline (China Southern) ordered A330s with PW. Though I suppose some of the orders placed by leasing companies could be PW.

pabloeing · Thu Jul 13, 2017 9:37 am

¿Someone know the next IB A330 deliveries?

Revelation · Thu Jul 13, 2017 12:20 pm

PM wrote:
KarelXWB wrote:
For the moment no further PW4000 A330s have been allocated to the production line.

And it is more than three years since an airline (China Southern) ordered A330s with PW. Though I suppose some of the orders placed by leasing companies could be PW.

Shouldn't be much of a problem to get PW4000s if desired since Pratt won the KC-46 contract and will have a steady stream of orders to fill.

Geoff1947 · Thu Jul 13, 2017 12:28 pm

pabloeing wrote:
¿Someone know the next IB A330 deliveries?

They have two A330-200s on order but they might be used by LEVEL.

The MSNs are 1835 and 1854 which should be 1Q18 and 2Q18 respectively.

Geoff

PM · Sat Jul 15, 2017 4:47 am

Revelation wrote:

Shouldn't be much of a problem to get PW4000s if desired since Pratt won the KC-46 contract and will have a steady stream of orders to fill.

The availability isn't the problem. It's the demand that seems to be missing.

Two A330s delivered this year (with no more on order), four last year, seven in 2015, eight in 2014 and ten in 2013. Deliveries have dwindled down to nothing and no-one is ordering more.

PW snapped up lots of the early A330 customers such as Thai, Malaysia, Korean, US Airways, Northwest, TAM, Vietnam and others but then their popularity waned. If this is the last A330 with PW it will be 245 and out. That gives them an 18% share of the A330 programme. Not, I'm sure, what they had in mind twenty years ago. That's half the market share they enjoyed on the A300/A310.

audidudi · Tue Jul 18, 2017 2:51 pm

KarelXWB wrote:
juliuswong wrote:
I always think why IR doesn't take up N508AV which has been in storage in US desert for some time. It was built for AV and it was flown for three months at most with them before AV got rid of her. Since then, she has been burning at desert close to two years if I'm not wrong.

In addition, AV offloads more A332 given that they have large amount of B787 delivered? It doesn't make sense to have both aircraft of same (almost) capacity in operation. Could someone shed some light why AV does so? I am sorry if I derailed the thread.

N508AV will go to Avianca Brasil (O6) later this month.

And now confirmed with its new reg., with delivery happening this week.

Airbus A330 -243 1508 PR-OCK Avianca Brasil re-regd 13jul17 on transfer, delivery 17/22jul17 VCV-MDE-POA ex N508AV

KarelXWB · Thu Jul 20, 2017 12:40 pm

More parts for the Beluga XL are being delivered:

Aciturri has delivered to the Assembly Line of Airbus in Toulouse the first set of auxiliary vertical stabilizers and the extension of the horizontal stabilizer box (HTP) of the future BelugaXL.

A work team of the company will also move, in the next few weeks, to the facilities in the city to complete the integration on the HTP.

The delivery is part of the project with Airbus for the design and manufacturing of the work package 230 of BelugaXL, the super transporter that Airbus use to transport aircraft mains components between its European production facilities.

http://www.aciturri.com/en/blog/post/ti ... -de-airbus

KarelXWB · Tue Jul 25, 2017 12:09 pm

The first Beluga XL is taking shape in Toulouse:

https://twitter.com/Airbus/status/889817804756705280

LoganTheBogan · Tue Jul 25, 2017 12:52 pm

Just the fact that the Beluga and Beluga XL can fly on 2 engines is quite impressive. Although, wings and fuselage sections are probably not that heavy.

KarelXWB · Tue Jul 25, 2017 3:26 pm

MSN 1820, Batik Air's first A330, seen in the assembly hangars couple days ago:

https://www.instagram.com/p/BWu_nAsnNPK/

KarelXWB · Thu Jul 27, 2017 10:04 am

Another regional A330 delivered:

Airbus A330 -343 1797 HZ-AQ26 Saudi Arabian Airlines delivery 27jul17 TLS-JED ex F-WWKH

jean06 · Thu Jul 27, 2017 10:52 am

KarelXWB wrote:
MSN 1820, Batik Air's first A330, seen in the assembly hangars couple days ago:

https://www.instagram.com/p/BWu_nAsnNPK/

Interesting to see MSN 1817 Aer Lingus, one of the last CF6 powered Airbus.

KarelXWB · Fri Jul 28, 2017 9:59 am

Another Singapore Air Force A330, MSN 1822, emerged from final assembly.

Singapore AF A330-243MRTT msn 1822 by dn280tls, on Flickr

KarelXWB · Fri Jul 28, 2017 1:17 pm

Next up:

Airbus A330 -343 1796 B-8962 China Eastern delivery 28jul17 TLS-TSN ex F-WWCY

juliuswong · Mon Jul 31, 2017 7:52 am

audidudi wrote:
KarelXWB wrote:
juliuswong wrote:
I always think why IR doesn't take up N508AV which has been in storage in US desert for some time. It was built for AV and it was flown for three months at most with them before AV got rid of her. Since then, she has been burning at desert close to two years if I'm not wrong.

In addition, AV offloads more A332 given that they have large amount of B787 delivered? It doesn't make sense to have both aircraft of same (almost) capacity in operation. Could someone shed some light why AV does so? I am sorry if I derailed the thread.

N508AV will go to Avianca Brasil (O6) later this month.

And now confirmed with its new reg., with delivery happening this week.

Airbus A330 -243 1508 PR-OCK Avianca Brasil re-regd 13jul17 on transfer, delivery 17/22jul17 VCV-MDE-POA ex N508AV

Thank you for the update, KarelXWB as well.

juliuswong · Mon Jul 31, 2017 7:53 am

KarelXWB wrote:
MSN 1820, Batik Air's first A330, seen in the assembly hangars couple days ago:

https://www.instagram.com/p/BWu_nAsnNPK/

Malindo Air/ Batik Air Malaysia will be getting two to launch KUL-BNE during Q4, 2017 if all goes well.

KarelXWB · Mon Jul 31, 2017 9:32 am

Shenzhen Airlines' first A330 (MSN 1810) has performed its first flight.

https://twitter.com/kevinjia1122/status ... 234028545/

A330 Shenzhen F-WWCT msn 1810 by Jérôme Vinçonneau, on Flickr

KarelXWB · Tue Aug 01, 2017 9:10 am

MSN 1802 delivered:

Airbus A330 -343 1802 B-8383 Air China delivery 01aug17 TLS-TSN ex F-WWYM

mjoelnir · Tue Aug 01, 2017 11:21 am

Revelation wrote:
PM wrote:
KarelXWB wrote:
For the moment no further PW4000 A330s have been allocated to the production line.

And it is more than three years since an airline (China Southern) ordered A330s with PW. Though I suppose some of the orders placed by leasing companies could be PW.

Shouldn't be much of a problem to get PW4000s if desired since Pratt won the KC-46 contract and will have a steady stream of orders to fill.

Not the same engine on the A330 and the 767. The 767 has the PW4000-94 and the A330 the PW4000-100. -94 and -100 denoting the fan size.

nimool · Sun Aug 06, 2017 10:27 pm

Geoff1947 wrote:
nimool wrote:
Geoff1947 wrote:

What did you want to know ?

Geoff

about the next deliveries

Unless they can pick up some more frames that were built for other airlines they won't be getting any A330s until the second half of 2018. They don't have any frames in the production list with MSNs assigned.

Geoff

Thanks for the info :mrgreen:

Now considering this backlog for the A330s dose this apply to their 321s and 320s oerders too, neo and ceo?
I Doubt if we see anymore in 2017.
I know that the A35K wont be delivered until 2019, assuming the orders goes trough without any problem from the Trump/US admin.

KarelXWB · Tue Aug 08, 2017 3:22 pm

China Eastern's next A330, MSN 1809, has been painted at XFW:

A330 China Eastern B- by Tobias Gudat, on Flickr

KarelXWB · Thu Aug 10, 2017 9:38 pm

The first A330 to be completed at the A330 Completion & Delivery Centre in Tianjin is ready for its ferry flight to TSN:

Airbus A330 -243 1805 B-8596 Tianjin Airlines ferried 09aug17 TLS-TSN, F-reg, 1st A330 to be completed at Tianjin, reg B-005A res. ex F-WWYF

Aircraft will have a temporary Chinese registration: B-005A.

AIRBUS A330-200 TIANJIN AIRLINES F-WWYF MSN1805 (B-8596) A L'AEROPORT TOULOUSE-BLAGNAC LE 04 08 17 by Jérémy Le roch, on Flickr

KarelXWB · Mon Aug 21, 2017 11:35 am

The next Eva Air A330, MSN 1806, parked in front of Station 20 hangars:

A330 Eva Air B-16340 msn1806 F-WWYA by theo franchi, on Flickr

KarelXWB · Mon Aug 28, 2017 7:54 am

Another A330 has been delivered to China Eastern Airlines:

Airbus A330 -243 1804 B-8972 China Eastern delivery 28aug17 TLS-PVG ex F-WWYU

KarelXWB · Tue Aug 29, 2017 9:23 am

And another one for Air China:

Airbus A330 -343 1807 B-8385 Air China delivery 29aug17 TLS-TSN ex F-WWYQ

KarelXWB · Tue Aug 29, 2017 8:53 pm

The second A330 to be completed at the A330 Completion & Delivery Centre in Tianjin is ready for its ferry flight to TSN:

Airbus A330 -343 1816 B-8863 China Eastern delivery 29aug17 TLS-TSN, F-reg, for cabin completion ex F-WWYN

Aircraft will have a temporary Chinese registration: B-005C.

China Eastern A330-343 msn 1816 by dn280tls, on Flickr

KarelXWB · Wed Aug 30, 2017 1:23 pm

Yet another China Eastern delivered:

Airbus A330 -343 1809 B-8862 China Eastern delivery 30aug17 TLS-PVG ex F-WWCS

gatibosgru · Wed Aug 30, 2017 1:31 pm

China sure has and is getting plenty of A330s!

JerseyFlyer · Wed Aug 30, 2017 2:15 pm

gatibosgru wrote:
China sure has and is getting plenty of A330s!

I assume all or most of the recent deliveries are the "regional" models late off the line to bridge the gap to A330 neo production.

audidudi · Wed Aug 30, 2017 3:18 pm

JerseyFlyer wrote:
gatibosgru wrote:
China sure has and is getting plenty of A330s!

I assume all or most of the recent deliveries are the "regional" models late off the line to bridge the gap to A330 neo production.

You assume correctly, as the prototype A330-900, MSN 1795, F-WTTN, hasn't even had its maiden flight yet! Does anyone know when this flight is due?

mjoelnir · Wed Aug 30, 2017 3:51 pm

JerseyFlyer wrote:
gatibosgru wrote:
China sure has and is getting plenty of A330s!

I assume all or most of the recent deliveries are the "regional" models late off the line to bridge the gap to A330 neo production.

Not only regional models. There are about 115 of all versions of A330ceo still to be delivered and there are still orders coming in. The last order was for A330-200. The only regional models recently delivered were for Saudia.

Revelation · Wed Aug 30, 2017 8:20 pm

gatibosgru wrote:
China sure has and is getting plenty of A330s!

They are building themselves quite the airline.

China Eastern to add 191 jets by end of 2019 says:

The SkyTeam carrier specifies that it will add 50 aircraft in the second half of 2017, comprising 30 Boeing 737s, 15 Airbus A320-family jets, four A330s and a single 777. During the same period, it will also retire six aircraft.

Thereafter, in 2018, it will add 67 aircraft: 37 737s, 16 A320-family jets, eight A330s, four 787s and two A350s. It will meanwhile retire 15 aircraft (10 A330s, four 767s and one 737).

In 2019, the airline will further pick up its pace and add 74 jets: 38 737s, 25 A320-family jets, six 787s and five A350s. There are no plans to retire any aircraft that year

KarelXWB · Wed Aug 30, 2017 8:22 pm

gatibosgru wrote:
China sure has and is getting plenty of A330s!

And many more to come.

817Dreamliiner · Fri Sep 01, 2017 5:57 pm

First Airbus A330-300 for Shenzhen Airlines In full livery MSN1810

F-WWCT by cliper31, on Flickr

KarelXWB · Sun Sep 03, 2017 9:02 pm

Aer Lingus MSN 1817 has been ferried to CHR for paint, replacing Shenzhen Airlines MSN 1810:

https://flic.kr/p/Y5rw3E

KarelXWB · Sun Sep 03, 2017 9:13 pm

MSN 1823 emerged from paint and features the new Hawaiian livery:

https://twitter.com/HawaiianAir/status/ ... 9833044992

TheGeordielad · Sun Sep 03, 2017 9:26 pm

audidudi wrote:
JerseyFlyer wrote:
gatibosgru wrote:
China sure has and is getting plenty of A330s!

I assume all or most of the recent deliveries are the "regional" models late off the line to bridge the gap to A330 neo production.

You assume correctly, as the prototype A330-900, MSN 1795, F-WTTN, hasn't even had its maiden flight yet! Does anyone know when this flight is due?

October

KarelXWB · Sun Sep 10, 2017 4:37 pm

MSN 1823 now has it engines installed:

Hawaiian Airlines Airbus A330-243 cn 1823 F-WWCH // N361HA by Clément Alloing, on Flickr

KarelXWB · Wed Sep 13, 2017 2:55 pm

Cabin photo of Shenzhen Airlines first A330:

https://www.facebook.com/staralliance/

Polot · Wed Sep 13, 2017 2:56 pm

Looks like a blast from the past from that angle. Does it have PTVs?

echovictor · Fri Sep 15, 2017 7:29 pm

Hi,
RTO for Hawaïan today. We expect first flight on monday ... pictures will then come !!!

ZEDZAG · Fri Sep 15, 2017 7:43 pm

KarelXWB wrote:

And many more to come.

This sheet shows AB as a customer, dont remember them ordering, and highly doubtful the airline will take delivery.

bycac · Sat Sep 16, 2017 1:22 pm

The Hawaiian performing FF today !!

Someone83 · Sat Sep 16, 2017 3:04 pm

ZEDZAG wrote:
KarelXWB wrote:

And many more to come.

This sheet shows AB as a customer, dont remember them ordering, and highly doubtful the airline will take delivery.

Operator, not customer, as they are ordered through AerCap. While they probably never will wear AirBerlin colours the contract is technically still valid

Jayafe · Mon Sep 18, 2017 3:09 pm

Nice picture of the mask

https://www.instagram.com/p/BZLyEXZgkil/?hl=en

Is the one at the back next IB A330?

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