Originally Posted by
melmothtw
Too few engines was never going to work, but in this case I am not sure it would have made much of a difference as the issue is a fault with the engines, not the number of engines. Even if the MoD had bough 100 spare engines, they too would suffer from the same fault and be unusable under the current circumstances.
That’s not true if the issue occurs on accrual of fatigue by flying hours. As an example a 100 spare engines would provide ability to generate an additional 100,000+ flying hours.