Tech delays were a rarity with Cathay Pacific and no ground engineers were carried, just a crew who knew their aircraft technically as well as operationally.
Yup, and we are certainly not surprised.
Of course, CX has rather good tech support at each outstation I would suspect, as for an adhoc charter operator (like us) that tech support is simply not available, so we carry our own.
One wonders....perhaps the RAF would do well to adopt the 'enroute tech support' that most charter carriers have, in this way, perhaps they would not be AOG half the time.
Or more....
