Talk:Airbus A330 MRTT

French tanker deal

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On Thursday, one day after the Delta order was announced, the French minister of defense announced a $3 billion deal to buy 12 Airbus A330 multirole tanker and transport aircraft for its military.

http://www.ibtimes.com/airbus-sells-12-a330-mrtt-tankers-france-after-14-billion-deal-delta-1727799 81.174.210.243 (talk) 23:20, 25 December 2014 (UTC)

The Airbus press release says it was an agreement to order and that the contract is ready for "official award". This reads like they have an agreement but have to finalize the contract. -Fnlayson (talk) 02:07, 26 December 2014 (UTC)

Proposed split of Multinational Multi-Role Tanker Transport Fleet section

This section refers to aircraft purchased under an initiative of the European Defence Agency that ended up procuring multiple A330 MRTT via multiple countries. The initiative is of sufficient importance in its' own right to warrant the creation of a page. It will also make it easier to separate out the procurement by the individual countries such as the Netherlands, Belgium, etc. I am happy to do the split if there is some support. Gusfriend (talk) 02:00, 24 January 2022 (UTC)

There does not seem to anywhere near enough activity lately with this article including the MMTT Fleet content to justify splitting off content. -Fnlayson (talk) 01:12, 27 January 2022 (UTC)

There does not seem to be enough justification for doing so. It would take up unnecessary resources, especially for such a not-notable topic. It could however be made into its' own section where you can list off countries. Toast (talk) 15:28, 2 November 2022 (UTC)

Aircraft are not ordered by individual participating countries, they are registered and managed in the Dutch Military Aircraft register and as such 'Royal Netherlands Air Force' aircraft (registration number & roundels). Participating countries confirm a certain capacity (no. of hours) as there are 1.100 hours available per aircraft per year. Suggest to adjust to The Netherlands and refer as they are sourced & registered for the A330 MMU. 2A02:1810:3E21:A500:345E:1AE7:10C:7639 (talk) 21:09, 24 November 2022 (UTC)

ZZ336

The cited BBC source indeed says 158 seats; but this source (also BBC) says 58 seats.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-36719529

This source clarifies: there are 100 standard seats at the rear, and 58 VIP seats at the front.

https://boardinggroup.one/travel/news/inside-the-uk-government-vip-jet/

MrDemeanour (talk) 14:24, 31 March 2023 (UTC)

USAF

the US Air force sentence in the intro should be moved to operators and not as a leading statement. Jord656 (talk) 17:27, 1 April 2023 (UTC)

Why? It was a major win for EADS at the time, and its selection and cancellation are still controversial. BilCat (talk) 21:54, 1 April 2023 (UTC)

As it makes the page seem America centric and biased Jord656 (talk) 05:07, 2 April 2023 (UTC)

A production run of at least 180 aircraft would have been at least triple the orders the company has for all other customers combined. That's just factual. Wanting to hide such a major loss in orders would be biased. BilCat (talk) 05:32, 2 April 2023 (UTC)

it is biased, how is it important for introducing the article? Makes Wikipedia seem like a US centric platform Jord656 (talk) 08:42, 2 April 2023 (UTC)

This was an important aspect of the aircraft's history, and the article includes a sizeable amount of text on it, so it's appropriate to note in the lead. A single sentence is hardly excessive. Nick-D (talk) 10:08, 2 April 2023 (UTC)

Exactly. BilCat (talk) 17:21, 2 April 2023 (UTC)

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• The Royal Australian Air Force has completes the first fuel transfer with the air refuelling boom from a RAAF KC-30A Multi Role Tanker Transport to a U.S. Air Force F-35A Lightning II.jpg

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Proposed image change

I propose changing the infobox image to a more representative photo. I have one which depicts the full capacity of the Voyager (ie refuelling 2 aircraft at once) and also thorough the more conventional probe and drogue method used by most nations. It is: RAF Voyager KC2 refuels two Tornado GR4.jpg J.Weir3 (talk) 21:49, 17 November 2023 (UTC)