Newsgroups: sci.aeronautics.airliners Path: news From: kls@ohare.Chicago.COM (Karl Swartz) Subject: Re: Northwest cancels Airbus X-Submission-Date: Thu, 10 Dec 1992 07:25:37 GMT References: Message-ID: Approved: kls@ohare.Chicago.COM Organization: Chicago Software Works X-Submission-Message-ID: <1992Dec10.072537.2670@ohare.Chicago.COM> Sender: kls@ohare.Chicago.COM Date: 10 Dec 92 00:52:16 PST In article rdd@rascal.ics.utexas.edu writes: >>With these cancellations, it is suspected that the bases will not be >>built, and NWA will fly their planes to Europe for C/D checks. Of >>course, they already have received and spent the operating loan.... >It'll be interesting to see what ramifications this has on the UAL deal: >did United plan on using Airbus/NWA North American facilities? I've never seen any mention of United's plans with regard to maintenance of their A320 fleet. However, all of them were to be leased (from GPA and Kawasaki, amongst others) and half of the 50 firm orders came with three-year, walkaway leases. This would not lead one to expect a tremendous investment in maintenance. Perhaps someone from Indiana might be able to shed more light on this -- I believe United's upcoming Indianapolis maintenance base was intended to take over the 737s from San Francisco, and thus it would be the obvious candidate for A320 maintenance if done in-house. -- Karl Swartz |INet kls@ditka.chicago.com 1-415/854-3409 |UUCP uunet!decwrl!ditka!kls |Snail 2144 Sand Hill Rd., Menlo Park CA 94025, USA Send sci.aeronautics.airliners submissions to airliners@chicago.com