Many air travelers are going to be able to ride a new wide-bodied aircraft. The aircraft manufacture Airbus, has recently offered a sneak peak of the newly designed Airbus A330-900neo. If you are like most other people, you may not even know what an Airbus A330 is. The first variation of the Airbus A330 preformed it's first flight in November of 1992. Since then, Airbus has been striving to perfect the aircraft. The aircraft has experianced 4 variations, starting with the A330-200. The new A330-900neo will be the biggest upgrade ever. The aircraft boasts the term neo, which means "new engine option". The new engines are Rolls-Royce Trent 7000 engines and will help the aircraft fly further with less fuel. The newest A330 will be able to burn 14% less fuel per seat than the A330-300. The A330-900neo is able to carry 287 in a 3 class configeration and 440 in an all economy configeration. Airbus currently has 224 orders of the airplane, including ones from Delta Airlines. Some European airlines plan to have the plane flying before the end of 2018, and the plane will be seen in the U.S. soon after.
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Questions-
1. Do you think airlines should replace planes as soon as a more fuel efficient version comes out, or should they wait until the planes are too old to fly?
My answer- I believe that airlines should replace the planes as soon as it gets to the point that the airlines are losing money by flying the planes. What I mean by this is that airlines just shouldn't buy every new plane that comes on the market, they need to be smart and realize how much the new planes would help them. I don't think that airlines should wait until the planes are at the point where they physically can't fly anymore. If they do this, the planes won't be fuel efficiant and will guzzle fuel and plummet income.
2. When you fly commercially do you notice wear and age in planes, or does it just go unnoticed to you?
My answer- I am able to notice when a plane is older. I know this by many reasons but it is mainly just how the interior of the plane looks. Another way you can tell is how loud or quiet the cabin seems to be. A loud cabin typically indicates an old airplane.
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Great job Trey!
That would really cool seeing something different then just Airplane. I think this is a great idea but would have to be test a lot before people would go on it. This would also help some airlines with their business.
I see where you are coming from. If airlines used their older planes, people may fly that airline more because they are more athentic. I could also see that being a problem because the fuel prices would be higher so airlines could lose money.
I agree, I think airlines should replace the planes as soon as they possibly can because I think the new planes would help their airline. When I fly commercially, I tend to notice if the plane is older and worn out a little.
I agree with you, but I also think airlines should be smart and not spend more money than they have. Most people are able to tell if an airliner is old or not like that but there is many different ways as well.
I think that it would cost an airline more money to replace all of their planes then it would to just run the same airplanes with the regular fuel effeciency.
I agree with you. I do think that sometimes it is the right time to upgrade planes though. This normally is when an airline sees that the fuel consumpation is so high that they aren't making money off of the flight.
I think that it should be a combination of both once the more fuel efficent ones come out they should replace some of them and then what they dont replace should be replaced at an older age. I can notice a few things like when they talk you can usally tell how old the plane is by how well the sound is. if its raspy andd hard to hear it's ussally an older plane.
I agree with you. I think it depends on the situation, every airline will have a different situation and becuase of this a different outcome. I see where you are coming from and that makes sense, but I think you are talking about smaller single engine planes.
I think they should actually wait until they defintley know it's safe and then switch over but for now stay with older planes.Yes you can see it in the seats if you fly in a newer plane compared to an older plane or if you don't have the movie screens because it's a older plane.
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