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Croatia Airlines continues to incur lease costs for a non-operational Dash 8 Q400 aircraft registered 9A-CQD, which has yet to be formally returned to its owner despite reaching the end of its lease. The turboprop requires additional work before it can be accepted by the lessor, with the carrier attributing the prolonged handover process to spare parts shortages and limited capacity at aircraft and engine maintenance facilities. Croatia Airlines described the continuing payments as an additional and previously unplanned financial burden linked to wider supply chain disruption within the aviation industry. The airline has not disclosed the accumulated cost or provided a timeframe for completing the return. Another Q400 that had been awaiting handover and for which Croatia Airlines has been paying prolonged leasing costs, 9A-CQC, was returned to its owner at the beginning of August, leaving 9A-CQD as the sole outstanding aircraft. Meanwhile, 9A-CQE and 9A-CQF remain in active service as Croatia Airlines gradually transitions towards an all-A220 operation.
Croatia Airlines continues to incur lease costs for a non-operational Dash 8 Q400 aircraft registered 9A-CQD, which has yet to be formally returned to its owner despite reaching the end of its lease. The turboprop requires additional work before it can be accepted by the lessor, with the carrier attributing the prolonged handover process to spare parts shortages and limited capacity at aircraft and engine maintenance facilities. Croatia Airlines described the continuing payments as an additional and previously unplanned financial burden linked to wider supply chain disruption within the aviation industry. The airline has not disclosed the accumulated cost or provided a timeframe for completing the return. Another Q400 that had been awaiting handover and for which Croatia Airlines has been paying prolonged leasing costs, 9A-CQC, was returned to its owner at the beginning of August, leaving 9A-CQD as the sole outstanding aircraft. Meanwhile, 9A-CQE and 9A-CQF remain in active service as Croatia Airlines gradually transitions towards an all-A220 operation.
Absolutely unreal that no one has been sacked over this.
ReplyDeleteNot only sacked. This should be subject to criminal investigation. But Attorney General, "naš dečko", ilegallly placed to his position in order to protect his Mafia buddies (read:government) is silent, while investigating opposition people for few hundred euros price diferrence in private land sale contracts
DeleteSve u svemu i politicari i obicni gradjani vole vam da budu pravi clanovi bezgresne EU.
DeletePIR: 👌👏
DeleteThe best on the portal is the comments section :D
DeleteFret not the tax payers will fund this
ReplyDeleteI'm not sure the locals care, nobody makes any effort apart from PIR to expose the corruptions that runs through the whole country.
DeleteMistakes happen. A220 is awesome!
ReplyDeleteAwesome things happen. But not in Croatia. A220 is mistake. Deliberate one. Greetings to the 3rd floor in Buzin, and Središnjica
DeleteA220 is awesome. So is A380. Neither really fit OU business model (or at least the one that it should have).
DeleteBoth A220 and A380 have positive and negative sides. There is no aircraft type on the Planet Earth that is ideal and/or awesome. Objective comparative analisys exist which show that in its category, A220 is slightly better than E195 on longer routes, which advantage vanishes and goes in favour of E195, while operating shorter flights, which is the case in OU. With your claim that both A220 and A380 don't fit business model OU should have I fully agree (at the moment it doesn't have any business model; it has political/mafia orders to feed LHG on expense of croatian tax payers)
DeleteA220 is so awesome they have problems with them. One of their A221 today started its takeoff from Skopje to Zagreb but stoped it immediately because of problems with the computers in the cockipt and it returned back to the gate, the flight was canceled.
Delete@anon 18:19 I recall during conversion training in Zurich for the 220 they told us that it will be working fine after it has been used a bit more apparently
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