Originally Posted by
PoppaJo
D checks won’t solve the fleet unreliability, they are early build models, they are scarred for life as one engineer told me, American also having some challenges with early build models. They will return from heavy checks and likely last a day before a whole new range of problems are discovered. At least the A330 could still fly even though it had a few problems here and there, one trusty old girl that kept the schedule in check.
Show's how far Airbus has progressed and how badly Boeing has gone backwards. The A300s had atrocious despatch reliability against the 767s. At one stage
JS apparently ordered that the 767s be gotten rid of and replaced with A300s. Engineering put together the stats to show that any substantive reliability recorded against the 767s was invariably when they were called on to replace yet another A300 that had gone U/S.
Here we are today with a Boeing that can't go a day without an issue and a venerable development of the A300 in the A330 which obviously fixed all the problems of the earlier type and now picks up the slack for Boeings in the fleet. I'd even tend to say the last 747-8 that rolled of the production line last month, was probably the last decent Boeing aeroplane to be built.