Originally Posted by
Webby737
Abidjan would not be a problem.
Air France have a maintenance line station there and there's plenty of reasonable hotels nearby for the pax.
Seems like a perfectly reasonable decision to me.
Line station is fine but it has a limited value if you have to change the engine on A380. I do not remember what maindeck capacity serves Abidjan today but I suspect the engine will have to end up on expensive charter flight along with AOG team, and passengers in hotels while pushing to BCN/TLS, let alone CDG will feature much less disruption and cost associated. So if that was a clearly isolated problem with one engine, I keep my opinion whether this was a reasonable decision after all.