Originally Posted by
Westlakejawa
Approx 6 600 miles is this the nearest maintenance facility available to carry out the work. Rather an expensive exercise.
Not necessarily.
The aircraft doesn't always position from/to the UK, it will sometimes operate the LHR-SIN schedule and then fly on to Manila for the check, with the A380 coming off the previous check operating the return SIN-LHR. Of course that only works when two consecutive checks are scheduled.