The coronavirus cobra más planes on your list early retirements, Virgin Atlantic retires his Boeing 747 and Delta the MD-88 and 90.
A few weeks ago we talked about the jubilariansón of the Boeings 747 of Qantas and KLM, where although these mayíto have a second chance, are now víyou're welcome tooén of the crisis that COVID-19 has generated on a global scale.
Virgin retires its Boeings 747 and Delta the MD-88 / 90
The global crisis due to this virus generates big pélosses in the industryérea, so cutting costs and thinking ahead has led to airlinesíurge to take extreme measures, retire several of its aircraft más older and less fuel efficient.
Anticipating actions to takeíeven in the prówe go toños, to allowá to the airíways to optimize your income and reduce your expenses, but leaving great sorrow in the aviation loversón and of these airplanes clásick.
Virgin Atlantic
Virgin Atlantic volará only twin-engine wide-body aircraft from London Heathrow and Manchester to their m destinationsás popular.
Starting the first week of May 2020, Virgin Atlantic no longer useá its seven Boeing 747-400, and four A330-200 aircraft will retireán at the beginning of 2022 As planned. For 2022, your fleet will beá más ecolólogical and simplified consisting of 36 twin-engine airplanes to reduceán CO2 emissions / RTK not dream 10% additional, basáfocusing on the efficiency of 18% already reached between 2007-2019.
Delta Air Lines
Delta withdrawá MD-88 and MD-90 aircraft earlier than previously planned, and both types of aircraft will leaveán of the fleet as of June 2020. The accelerated retirement schedule for both aircraft is a result of the COVID-19 pandemic as capacity is reduced across the system.. Delta reduced its overall active fleet by half, parking más de 600 airplanes in the úlast two months.
The MD-88 of 149 seats were already scheduled to be removed at the end of 2020. From February of this toñO, before the reductionón of fleet driven by coronavirus, había 47 MD-88y 29 MD-90 in operation.
Both aircraft operated in a large part of the dom networkéDelta's aesthetics and have been workhorses for the airlineínea.
Delta continúevaluating your fleet planás and considerá additional aircraft retirements to focus on a modern fleet and más simplified in the future.
At least this will help these airlines to manage their capital in a better way since, especially in the case of Delta the M.D.. They were not so economical due to their age., and in the case of virgin, 2 engines are better than 4 TRUE?
Yes, that's exactly it.