Re: LN-NOB er paa sin jomfrutur
Could please someone of the Moderator-Corps take out all the pubertary postings on what certain forum members do associate Norwegians livery with and simply put it into a own topic "Does Norwegian need a new livery?" or "How does Norwegian planes look like?"!
I personally think it is a big shame if such a discussion is done here. Either we want to discuss facts and increase knowledge, or those that post this pubertary stuff here, want to continue here in general chat.
Given the fact that this is a public forum I have difficulties to understand that grown up persons can post such childish stuff in here. Do you ever consider that this is read somewhere and how people think about you? I mean, such levels of discussions I had when I was 12 or 14, but not when I did pass the 20 mark. I really do hope that the CEO's of GONow, SAS and some other companies don't sneak in here. They could question themselves "What kind of phantasy do our employees have???"
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Back to the topic:
Norwegian announced that they take 11 leased 737-800 between 2008 and 2010. These aircraft are not owned nor ordered by Norwegian and are activated on the balance sheets of the respective leasing companies, and not on Norwegians balance sheet. Not necessarily all of these aircraft are factory new.
I guess if someone wants to have a fair impression on how negotiations on such leasing aircraft and the property status are going, please search for one of the first posts of our Forum Member "OJB" who did describe this in a superb posting with the former LN-NOR of Norway Airlines back in the 1980s.
Breakdown of the 11 leased aircraft (according to Norwegian Press release from 11th May 2007).
7 in 2008
3 in 2009
1 in 2010
Prior to the order of the 42 737-800s, which will be owned, Norwegian did reserve the Registration marks LN-NOB til LN-NOH (7 units). Pling pling pling:9:, look a few lines higher and see with which number that co-incidences. No further assignments have been done so far in the NO* series.
LN-NOC is currently at BUD.
To write "venter for (mis)bruk" shows just that some people have no clue why this bird is in BUD. Definately not for storage or abuse. BUD is a pretty good Maintenance place and since the aircraft comes off lease from Air Europa, it has to be handed over to the leasing company by the lessee in a per-contract agreed condition. In order to achieve this, the bird has been send over to BUD to have Maintenance work carried out there. It was ferried to Budapest on Air Europe Flight number. So it did not have its "jomfru-tour" yet, despite the livery.
LN-NOF is revealed as MSN on the Seattle-deliveries.
They do not reveal the MSN chronologically, but as they approach delivery in sequence with their line number. Only the nearest 100-200 MSN are open for the 737 line. The line-number will be published later, usually no more than 20-50 of the nearest future Line-Numbers are published.
LN-NOD & LN-NOE:
You all want to know, don't you? But sorry, it is still secret. Call it spotter-uvennlig or whatever you like... Sometimes someones gotta wait.
I would really appriciate if the discussion could go on as straight-on-top only.