March 20, 201214 yr Hi, fellow 737 sim pilots,bad news for those of you who like to fly the NGX in OS (Austrian Airlines) livery: Under their current restructuring efforts, OS has announced that its short-to-medium haul fleet will become Airbus-only. The 737s (which had all been inherited when Lauda Air was taken over by Austrian) will be replaced. Then both the OS and NG liveries on the -600, -700 and -800 will be history... I shall miss them in real life (I was actually on board OE-LNO once, on a flight to LDDU!) and shall continue to use them in the sim.RegardsSigmar StadlmeierLOWL (Linz/Austria)
March 20, 201214 yr Someone will be found for 700s and 800s... however, I am afraid 600 will go to the scrapper... that is indeed bad news for 600 lovers...I have seen one recently on a local airport. Nice little fat Albert...What will we have left for 600s now? Westjet, SAS, Tunisair.. Am I missing someone? --Peter Fabian
March 20, 201214 yr Hi, fellow 737 sim pilots,bad news for those of you who like to fly the NGX in OS (Austrian Airlines) livery: Under their current restructuring efforts, OS has announced that its short-to-medium haul fleet will become Airbus-only. The 737s (which had all been inherited when Lauda Air was taken over by Austrian) will be replaced. Then both the OS and NG liveries on the -600, -700 and -800 will be history... I shall miss them in real life (I was actually on board OE-LNO once, on a flight to LDDU!) and shall continue to use them in the sim.RegardsSigmar StadlmeierLOWL (Linz/Austria)Yes, that sucks, and any news stating that yet another European carrier abandones their NG aircraft make me cringe.In the case of Austrian the move over to Airbus was a question of time after Lufthansa had acquired them. Makes me wonder how much longer Lufthansa will run their classic 737s. Dave P. Woycek
March 20, 201214 yr Oh what a joke! First easyjet and now Austrian?!? One is enough. What's next, Scandanavian?! i7-6700K @ 4.5 GHz, 16 GB DDR4-2400 MHz, GTX 1070 8GB
March 20, 201214 yr Don't think SAS is ging to replace their 737-NGs infact they ordered 20 new as far as i know for their norwegian operations replacing the classics they run. But they are replacing their MD-80's with Airbus 320 so it's not like they favor the Boeings.Also Ryanair is only getting new 737's if they can agree with boing on the price and terms, and currently they can't. Im sure they will turn to Airbus or some russian, chinese or whatever manufacture that can deliver something similar at a better price, because that is what matters to ryanair, how cheap things can be ;-) -K Platou Hardware: Asus Sabertooth p67 | Intel I7-2600k | 8GB Corsair Vengeance RAM | EVGA GeForce GTX 560Ti 2GB | 2 x 2TB Seagate HDD Saitek, yoke, pedals, throttles | TrackIr 5 | 2x Samsung 23" SyncMaster XL2370 | Win 7 x64 Addons: PMDG JS4100 | PMDG NGX 900/800/700/600 | (AS2012, VoxATC, FXAA, GSX, etc..)
March 20, 201214 yr Don't think SAS is ging to replace their 737-NGs infact they ordered 20 new as far as i know for their norwegian operations replacing the classics they run. But they are replacing their MD-80's with Airbus 320 so it's not like they favor the Boeings.Also Ryanair is only getting new 737's if they can agree with boing on the price and terms, and currently they can't. Im sure they will turn to Airbus or some russian, chinese or whatever manufacture that can deliver something similar at a better price, because that is what matters to ryanair, how cheap things can be ;-)Very true. Don't count on Ryanair staying with Boeing. Dave P. Woycek
March 20, 201214 yr Oh crap, just when I wanted to fly some OS NG's with my VA, looks like they'll be gone by the time I land in Vienna.:(
March 20, 201214 yr Ioan: Well I re-joined Austrian VA just recently with the same thing in mind. well they declined my request to join the 737 fleet, and shipped me of to Tyrolean. Which I would be OK with, if it were not for... the facts that DA/Flight1 Fokker never got its VC and Fandas Dash-8 is still in the making. Now it looks like I might as well go ahead and let my membership lapse.Eh, I was not cut for this VA business anyway... --Peter Fabian
April 3, 201313 yr Author Update 4 April 2013: They are history. OS's last 737-800 (still in old NG colours) was retired. For those who can read German, see the report on http://www.austrianwings.info/2013/04/fotobericht-von-der-ausflottung-der-letzten-aua-boeing-737/ -- and those who do not may still enjoy the photos. Happy landings Sigmar Stadlmeier
April 3, 201313 yr Ryanair will always be there They're probably not going to take used NG's from other carriers. Plus, they'd only be interested in -800's. As far as I know Ryanair has only recently purchased factory fresh -800's from Boeing as replacements for older -800 models and to expand their fleet. Dave P. Woycek
April 3, 201313 yr Very true. Don't count on Ryanair staying with Boeing. Boeing has one VERY strong argument going for them: Fleet commonality. RYR only needs to have spare parts and engineers for 1 type of aircraft. They need to maintain ±305 738s, but it's a LOT cheaper to maintain those, than it would be to maintain 150 A320s and 150 738s. (For example) Also, It's a lot simpler in terms of legal procedures to operate a fleet of one single type of aircraft. The costs for pilot and cabin crew training are also a lot cheaper. If they really needed to, they could go with the -700, which requires a minimum of extra training, but in their operations, a -700 would not be very efficient. The 738 is a much better bird for what they need. Which is why they bought another 100 or so, and are looking (very very seriously) at the MAX. It won't be easy for RYR to change from the 738 to something else, whatever it is. Name available upon request
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