Indonesian Aero News

[Ananda]

there's a potential three way deal there, ending up with Garuda getting three new A330-900 & TNI-AU the three used A330-200, overhauled & converted to MRTT by Airbus.

From what I gather and heard the rumours, this is what Airbus try to offer. New A330-900 Neo for Garuda while Airbus Military take over A300-200 of Garuda to convert to MRTT. The calculation of pricing and financing package will determine the winner. So far the talk of MRTT is circle around A400M. All three are mostly in 15+ years old. Thus converting to MRTT should at least in theory give another 2 decades more live. Looking on how long USAF maintain their KC-135, it could be longer.

Garuda have 5 + 9 order for A330-900, and so far they seems want also to maintain A330-300. Thus their A330-200 from what I heard from market analyst in here, is not part of Fleet they want to maintain. Logically should be sold to Government as part of financial packages to help Garuda which still in financial recoveries. Well if they follow logic anyway.

 

[Arji]

From what I know from work, Garuda's A330-200s is a leased aircraft and they're in the process of returning it to the lessor. So I'm not sure how they can be transferred to TNI-AU.

 

[Ananda]

I saw the list of Garuda owned plane consist of A330-200 and A330-300 from the batch procured in 2010-2014 (during Emirsyah Satar management). Noted there is also list that shown the ones that owned by Garuda is all A330-300.

If those A330-200 is part of leased fleet (again this is if as there are conflicting report on this), it is still can be bought by Government if they want to take it for MRTT convertion. Either way, Government need to buy it first, either to Garuda (if owned) or Lessor (if leased). Most A330 MRTT are coming from convert process of used ex Airlines A330-200, and taking ex Garuda fleet means the planes already have maintenance record in Indonesia.

Rumours now talk about Airbus MRTT lobby got challenge from lobby of used IL-78. As usual this rumours get over blow circulation from Frenchie Salesman and his followers. There's no surprises in here as TNI-AU and MinDef do looking for A-330MRTT, KC-76 or 767MRTT convertion and IL-78 (used or new) as part of options calculations.