PHOTO: Air Zimbabwe new livery, no Airbus A340 plan anymore?

[Stratofreighter]

http://skyliner-aviation.de/viewphoto.m ... picid=6904

Photo by: DAM (Date: 23.12.2010)
Airline: Air Zimbabwe [Z-WPF]
Type: Boeing 767-200
Airport: United Kingdom London, Gatwick (LGW)

Comment: Air Zimbabwe hat eine erste Boeing 767-200 mit einer neuen Lackierung versehen. Damit dürfte wohl die Beschaffung von A340-500 vom Tisch sein. / Air Zimbabwe applied a complete new livery to a first Boeing 767-200 which may mean than the planned replacement by A340-500s is no more current.

[Stratofreighter]

Indeed it increasingly looks like Air Zimbabwe will not operate Airbus A340s in the short term:

http://www.airliners.net/aviation-forum ... #ID5019384

Does anyone have the latest information on the deliveries from Airbus Toulouse of the two ex-Kingfisher aircraft (MSN886) and (MSN894) to Air Zimbabwe or Sonair or ????

Still stored at Toulouse but now registered in Portugal (to be operated by HiFly) as CS-TQL and CS-TQP.

[ehusmann]

But the poster at A.net does not provide for which airline HiFly will operate them. HiFly flies most of their birds for other airlines, so my guess is these will be flying for another as well. I wouldn´t be surprised it HiFly would operate them for Air Zimbabwe (but I have no info that proofs that point, just a hunch).

Erwin