Originally Posted by
Bootstrap1
The average fleet age is 15 years old, yet even the newer aircraft (787s and refurbed A380s) are buckets of sh!t. Qantas engineering sacked so many engineers and shut down so many departments during COVID that they no longer have a dedicated department to maintain their aircraft cabins. Business seat locked out? Standard these days. Toilet seats cracked? Yep no spares. Cabin just looking shabby? Thanks Alan.
They did try using the LAX maintenance base to fill the shortfall of engineers in Australia but LAX is a bigger failure than planned.
But Kylie sang and they have a rainbow liveried A330 so Alan is happy.
I was told exactly the same thing about the condition of the cabins by a current serving 787 engineer. Like you say,j class seats locked upright or locked out completely,bits of trim missing or held together with tape & mel's used right up to day of expiry.