The aircraft will differ from the voyager fleet by having 32 more seats different seats with in flight video and they will receive thomas cook livery.
Air tanker surge fleet.
The aircraft which is part of the royal air force mrtt surge fleet under the future strategic tanker aircraft fsta program will now undergo a three month in house conversion to convert the aircraft into a commercial airliner.
Please refer to the current fleet list to see each aircraft s individual age.
1 the average fleet age is based on our own calculations and may differ from other figures.
And they can travel much faster than other air tankers up to 350 mph fully loaded.
Only supported aircraft types that are active with this airline are included in the calculations.
Only supported aircraft types that are active with this airline are included in the calculations.
1 the average fleet age is based on our own calculations and may differ from other figures.
Airtanker has a 27 year contract to provide fourteen aircraft.
Until that time the surge aircraft can.
Aero flite aero air and neptune all swapped out some eu aircraft but each still has the same number of allocated slots.
This could change later in the year but today there are a total of 21 air tankers on both types of contracts down from 24 last year.
In june 2014 thomas cook airlines entered into an agreement to lease one of the 5 surge aircraft from airtanker.
Please refer to the current fleet list to see each aircraft s individual age.
It s not like the old days when you needed regional attack plans to get to a fire burrus said.
Core fleet of nine aircraft eight with military serials and one civilian registration and a surge fleet of five civil registered aircraft which it uses for additional revenue.
Airtanker will eventually have a fleet of 14 brand new airbus a330mrtts comprising nine aircraft for air to air refuelling and air transport with an additional five making up the surge fleet.
Airtanker has taken delivery of its eleventh voyager multi role tanker transport aircraft mrtt which will be operated by thomas cook airline.