AIRBUS A340 WITH WHICH SLM WILL FLY WITH COLOR SCHEME

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The 'new' Airbus A340-300 of the SLM (Surinam Airways) is color-patterned in Amman, Jordan. Skubin Design, which stickered the device, shared the first images with the Slovenian site Sierra5. The livery still clearly shows that this 14-year-old A340 flew for Air Belgium as OO-ABD in the past.

The SLM expects to be able to use this aircraft on the Amsterdam - Paramaribo route from May. The aircraft replaces the ex-KLM A330-200 currently leased from Airhub and still carries the KLM colour scheme (the 9H-PAX, formerly PH-AOM). The Surinamese airline has leased the A340 for a period of eight months, with the intention of extending the duration.

For the SLM, the A340 is certainly not an unknown type: in recent years, several examples have been licensed, including Air Belgium, and until 2019 the SLM itself flew the A340-300. That aircraft was then replaced by a Boeing 777, but that proved unsuccessful.

Due to financial problems and mismanagement during the corona crisis, Surinamese society ran out of planes. Expensive wetlease aircraft therefore had to be used on all flights. Now the company is carefully building its own dry leased fleet again. A second Boeing 737-800 will also be put into service in May.

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