This photograph by Digital Airliners taken just two days ago at Toulouse shows two Airbus A340-500's.
One is still painted in Kingfisher Airlines' colours. Kingfisher had ordered five A340-500s, but defaulted on taking delivery last year. Three were diverted to Nigeria's Arik Air, but it appears the balance two have become the dreaded white tail for Airbus, i.e. a jet built but now the ordering airline is not taking delivery, and therefore the plane has no place to go.
Just two weeks ago, Kingfisher diverted 4 A321s to Turkish Airlines after its financial problems forced it to again default on delivery from Airbus.
[Saturday, February 21, 2009
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[Tags : A321 , A340 , Airbus , Kingfisher Airlines , Turkish Airlines ]
[Tags : A321 , A340 , Airbus , Kingfisher Airlines , Turkish Airlines ]
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