One year after taking delivery of it, Azul plans to retire its A350s

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Hello everybody!

One year after taking delivery of its first A350, the Brazilian airline is planning to retire them (they have 2 in total).
The reason is due to an high operating cost of this aircraft, which is only profitable on routes of equal or greater duration to Campinas → Orly, compared to the A330-900N.

The last flight of this aircraft will be on October 2nd on the Viracopos → Orlando route.
Until October 28th, the last A350 slot is scheduled at the airport in Campinas.

Theirs 2 A350-900s will next, begin a new life with Iberia.

What do you think?

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They need more C208s honestly

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A350 is way too new for this.

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Dang… sad to see such a old and classic aircraft leave the fleet 😢😢 in case you have the iq of a 5 year old ipad kid, This is a joke

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Masterclass in sales by the Airbus team.

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yikes, sounds like they need the a320neos of boeing maxes

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and to waste more time flyin short city to city routes to complete a “long haul”

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Are they gonna drop all their long hauls?

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I don’t see why they would, they still have the 330neo

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They didn’t really need them at all, and they didn’t have the economical status to get them to fly for long, shouldn’t have bought them…

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Their long hauls will still be operated by the A330 and A330N

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I assume they were probably leased right? Retires is probably also not the most accurate way to word that but fleet changes happen all the time, kinda makes sense to streamline tbh given that they have a lot more A330s than A350s so if the a330-900 can do it for them for cheaper then it’s a no brainer.

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