Destination LAX

June 14, 2013
Philippine Airlines announces deployment of Iberian A340 (RP-C3435, Cn 302) to North America beginning with Los Angeles on July 1. In the meantime, they will be flown to regional destinations in Singapore and Hong Kong next week before taking a big leap to North America. Below is the delivery flight of the A340-313X today with ETA at 0930.

6 comments:

  1. that's not A340-300, right?. that's A340-500 or 600.

    That's not a hairdryer CFM engine.

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    1. I guess the picture that used to be in this post is not the plane PAL will get. The old picture did look like a -500 of -600

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    2. Yap. Thank you for pointing that out and keeping us on our toes.

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  2. Can they just swap or change aircraft with the same model? Is it in the FAA Cat 2 rule book?

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  3. The plane that will be RP-C3435, is in fact, an A340-300. They're testing the plane by putting it in service in domestic and regional flights before deploying them to US flights in July.

    Just today, I saw the plane - grey/white scheme with no tail livery - climb out of RPMR/GES, operating as PR454 to Manila. It's been a week since delivery.

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  4. Airline routes reports that Philippine Airlines will change operational aircraft on Manila – Melbourne route from 09 JUL 13 replacing Boeing 777-300ER aircraft with ex-Iberian A340-300. The configuration is C36Y218,on the same 3 weekly service.

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