Originally Posted by
gordonfvckingramsay
I think the point is that none of this would have happened if QF focused on running an airline rather than focusing on screwing the humans that make the airline work, both passengers and staff. Management saw this coming but let their egos stop them from changing their focus.
Emirates, Singapore, Qatar, Etihad, BA, LH, Korean all have the same or more A380s as Qantas but somehow the article leads us to believe this is almost all AJ’s fault and a QF specific problem. The fact EK and SQ with their 120 and 24 A380s will be more substantially affected is barely mentioned. I’d argue proportionally this would affect EK the most, but MWM is on a bit of a vendetta against QF at the moment so anything like that will be blown out of proportion. Just like the upcoming Dnata strike action, from media headlines you’d think it’s solely QF ground staff performing strikes, only QF services being affected and more “Chaos for QF”. But they service most international carriers (owned by EK).
You can do a Google News search for articles relating to the 2019 AD, you’ll see back then the focus on the articles was on Airbus as a manufacturer and the aircraft itself, QF only rated a mention in these articles as an affected airline, unlike the MWM article where it’s now seemingly all their fault.
The AD extends the inspection area from 2019 and brings the time interval forward a bit. It’s not as if the entire fleet needs to be imminently grounded.
Half of QF A380s were inspected in 2019, it would been more disruptive to the schedule then to take them out of service for the inspections than now when most are in the process of slowly being re-activated, with crew re-training being the biggest obstacle to bringing them back sooner.