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 Posted: Wed Sep 25, 2013 6:31 pm Post subject: Airbus announces new lower weight A330-300 variant |
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NOTE: Intentionally posted in the "Civil Aviation" section, as this relates to an aircraft maker rather than an (non-Indian) airline.
http://www.airbus.com/presscentre/pressreleases/press-release-detail/detail/airbus-announces-lower-weight-a330-for-regional-domestic-operations/
Airbus announces lower weight A330 for regional & domestic operations
Optimised for shorter haul missions, offering higher capacity, long-range comfort and unbeatable economics
25 September 2013
Airbus has announced a new lower weight variant of its versatile A330-300 wide-body aircraft that is optimised for use on domestic and regional routes in high growth markets with large populations and concentrated traffic flows. China will be one of the most important markets for this new version of today’s world’s most efficient and reliable widebody aircraft.
The announcement was made by Fabrice Bregier, President and CEO of Airbus, at the Aviation Expo China (Beijing Airshow) 2013, which has opened its doors today in Beijing.
“The new lower weight A330-300 variant specially designed for regional and domestic use is Airbus’ solution for markets with large populations and fast growing, concentrated air traffic flows. Operators of the new A330-300 variant will benefit from a proven, mature and reliable aircraft that brings relief to limited airspace, airport congestion and pilot shortage,” said Fabrice Bregier. “We are announcing the new A330-300 lower weight variant today in China because here we see strong pent-up demand for efficient and reliable wide-body aircraft connecting mega cities such as Beijing, Shanghai, Chengdu and Guangzhou.”
Compared to current A330-300 variants that are adapted to longer-range missions of up to 6,100 nautical miles (nm), the new A330-300 regional and domestic variant will be optimised to seat up to around 400 passengers in Airbus’ best in class 18 inches wide economy seat comfort on missions up to 3,000 nm and offer significant cost savings through a reduced operational weight of around 200 tonnes. The reduction in fuel burn per seat and maintenance costs thanks to these innovations will result in an overall cost reduction by up to 15% compared with the today’s long-range A330-300 variants.
In addition, the new A330-300 variant will benefit from the latest A350 XWB and A380 technologies. These include cockpit functionalities such as dual head-up display and the latest navigational systems. The cabin will also be future proofed with innovations such as modern slimline light-weight seats, high broadband wi-fi connectivity throughout, the newest In-Flight Entertainment allowing HD TV, LED lighting and full colour mood lighting.
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| Posted: Wed Sep 25, 2013 6:47 pm Post subject: |
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This is very interesting, they seem to have gone in with the 330 as the base model, if they were looking at a 2022 launch, they could have made modifications to the 350-900, call it the 359D or something similar, replaced the 350-800 program with this.
There is a niche market for these type of planes, hopefully a small one in India too by 2022.
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| Posted: Wed Sep 25, 2013 8:34 pm Post subject: |
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| me111993 wrote: | | There is a niche market for these type of planes, hopefully a small one in India too by 2022. |
India's probably a huge market for these planes - most India-Gulf routes, India - South East Asia routes etc. might be better served through this "lighter" plane. Not to mention domestic trunk routes as well.
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actually there was a tiny mess up at the initial report, EIS is 2016, which is like tomorrow.
India is a big market, but so soon, its really doubtful.
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| Posted: Wed Sep 25, 2013 9:01 pm Post subject: |
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| me111993 wrote: | actually there was a tiny mess up at the initial report, EIS is 2016, which is like tomorrow.
India is a big market, but so soon, its really doubtful. |
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After all this while- 40 years overall, what finally Airbus has come back to is the A300 in a modern avatar !!- and this was precisely what the original A330 was meant to be. |
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1. Does anyone know how to use gcmap to draw the approx 2500nm range from DEL/ BOM and MAA?
2. How much lighter is this than the regular 333?
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Isn't it funny that the conventional 333 sort of lost the race to the shorter 332 somewhere along the road, only for the last few years to see it bouncing back strongly, and enjoying spinoffs like these?
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| Spiderguy252 wrote: | | Isn't it funny that the conventional 333 sort of lost the race to the shorter 332 somewhere along the road, only for the last few years to see it bouncing back strongly, and enjoying spinoffs like these? |
The 333 was intended to be a twin engine wide body with longer range than the A300. and that is what it exactly is.
Then Boeing came up with the 777-200 and subsequently the 777-200ER.
For lower capacity long range ops, they were offering the 767-300ER. The only solution Airbus had to compete with Boeing was to shorten the A333 to give rise to the A332.
All they are doing now is lengthening the A333 to get a higher capacity, short range airplane.
Only goes to show how versatile the design of the A300 family is.
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| Spiderguy252 wrote: | | Isn't it funny that the conventional 333 sort of lost the race to the shorter 332 somewhere along the road, only for the last few years to see it bouncing back strongly, and enjoying spinoffs like these? |
The 330-300 has come a very long way since its inception, the latest version, the 242 Ton version enables that plane to do almost 6100 nautical miles, almost double of what it was originally meant to do, and that at fairly decent fuel burn figures.
What will now be interesting is that airbus will offer a 200 Ton MTOW version and a 242 Ton MTOW version of the same plane!
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| Posted: Thu Sep 26, 2013 2:24 am Post subject: |
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great move by Airbus! Should be a hot favourite with LCC. Won't be surprised if Japs grab a few of them too.
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| The_Goat wrote: | | Only goes to show how versatile the design of the A300 family is. |
Absolutely, especially when you also consider the shortened A310 too.
In fact, Airbus has been prattling out the same fundamental aircraft out to customers over and over - the A300, aside from the A380 which as you alluded to in the other thread, hasn't exactly been a runaway success so far.
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http://www.ch-aviation.com/portal/news/48643-saudia-takes-delivery-of-maiden-a330regional
Saudia takes delivery of maiden A330Regional
Saudia (SV, Jeddah) has taken delivery of the world's first A330-300Regional following the arrival of HZ-AQ11 (cn 1724) in Jeddah on Thursday, August 18.
The aircraft is one of twenty the Saudis will lease from the International Airfinance Corporation (IAFC) with deliveries sourced directly from Airbus Industrie (AIB, Toulouse Blagnac).
The A330-300 Regional is optimized to seat up to 400 passengers on missions up to 5,000 kilometres. As such, Saudia will use the type to boost capacity on several of its high-demand domestic and regional routes.
The airline is an existing A330 operator with twelve A330-300s currently in service.
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Wonder how they will seat 400 in a 333?
3-3-3 in Y like Cebu Pacific and Air Asia X do?
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