UFO- How many other contracts, mining or otherwise are served with 1 single aircraft ALL the time. I understand their Fortescue contract is served by both the A320 and F100's, but there is only 1 A320, and all it does is go to Cloudbreak. So therefore any time it has a tech issue, it is going to be on that service. Makes sense right?
How many times has it been 'stuck' since it started operating last year? If they had other airframes that were able to be swapped and rotated around, I bet the punters wouldn't have a clue that the aircraft they were originally meant to be on actually went U/S earlier in the day.
It is an old airframe though......