A330 damaged in CLT by vendor

[700UW]

 

[psa8979]

Pictures are worth a 1000 word's . Thanks 700. 

 

[A320 Driver]

I wonder what the status of the repair is. That happened over a month ago as I recall.

 

[jcw]

looks like the last time it flew was Dec 1st as US 733

 

[psa8979]

Months ? Brother. Months ! Whats the saying ? You get what you pay for . You pay chit you get chit . Vendors are always a short term solution that eventually will cost AAL/DP $$$ 

 

[USFlyer]

The vendor's liability insurance should cover the repair costs plus any lost revenue as a result of not being able to use the plane.

 

[jimntx]

True, but then after 5000 years of fighting among those Semitic first cousins, there should be peace in the Middle East also.

 

[Dont call me Shirley]

The photo brings this clip to mind:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yc9D5I_KPfs

 

[AA-MRO.COM]

NICE

 

[700UW]

More pics, rumor has it they might scrap it.
 
http://imgur.com/a/ApjTk

 

[FWAAA]

It's a 332, so that means it's a relatively new plane, no? IIRC, the 333s are the older ones in the fleet.

That's gonna cost someone's insurance company a lot of money. Really big money.

 

[700UW]

288 is 1 1/2 years old.

 

[N628AU]

Rumor from whom?  Some base maintenance employee who posted the pics, or someone else?  Damage looks nasty to the forward pressure bulkhead, but it is repairable.  

 

[FWAAA]

Over on Flyertalk, there's a flight attendant (US East) claiming that the truck is a US-owned "catering truck" and was driven by a US employee, not an outsourced contractor.

Looks to me like a truck driven by cleaning crew (it does have the greyhound AA logo on the side) but doesn't look like a catering truck. Catering would be Gate Gourmet or Sky Chefs, right? Anyway, are cleaners at CLT outsourced or in-house?

 

[LD3]

Cleaning is contract, catering is in house...