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While there were hopes of a different fate for Austrian Airlines’ oldest Boeing 767, reports have emerged that 30-year-old OE-LAT is currently being dismantled in the Arizona desert. Meanwhile, its slightly younger sibling is stored at a general aviation airport in Minnesota, which also houses a maintenance facility for cargo specialist Kalitta Air.
The first of Austrian’s Boeing 767s (not pictured) has been spotted engine-less in the desert. Photo: Vincenzo Pace – Simple Flying
Stripped of its P&W engines
We have been closely following the fate of Austrian Airlines’ Boeing 767s here at Simple Flying. Even though the airline managed to find a new owner for three of the classic red-and-white liveried widebodies, unfortunately, it looks as if at least one will not fly again. As aeroTELEGRAPH reports, photos have emerged from the aircraft graveyard at Pinal Airpark, Arizona, of OE-LAT stripped of its engines.
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Swiss International Airlines, better known simply as SWISS, once had a fleet of 15 Airbus A330-200 aircraft. The airline, a member of the Lufthansa Group, operated the planes between 2002 and 2011. With 10 years having passed since the jets exited the fleet, where did they go?
SWISS took 13 A330-200s in 2006, with another two in 2006 from Lufthansa as part of a group fleet reshuffle. Photo: Aero Icarus via Flickr
Where did the aircraft come from?
Of the 15 A330-200s operated by SWISS, most of these were ‘picked up’ from the collapse of Swissair. These had been delivered to Swissair, brand new from Airbus, between 1998 and 2001. Thus in 2002, SWISS, all at once, had 13 A330-200s that previously belonged to Swissair.