Last time when SMRT announced its fleet renewal program (332
A22s, 40 A24s, 201 ADLs), it mentioned that this is the fleet
renewal plan till 2016. Which also makes sense because O405G MKII
and Habit Batch one are not due to deregister till 2017. So I do
not expect them to place orders for A95 that fast (if they ever do
order any, because I feel they might still stick to ADLs if LTA
doesnt want to diversify to too many models).
Anyway, SBST is also not deregistering their DM3500s, Volvo
Olympian Batch III, Dennis Trident, VSOs prematurely so SMRT does
not need to deregister the O405Gs prematurely unless there are
serious problems with the model (which there isnt).
Well, SMRT trial the A95 for 1 year(if I'm not wrong).(From
Oct/Nov 2014 to Oct/Nov 2015)
I believe LTA will consider MAN A95 too, otherwise 5888H will be
the sole unit liao. Plus, A95, A24, A22 all shares the same
bodywork n look. If 7888K is accepted, I see no reason why 5888H
isn't.
