It is pretty obvious that QF has a problem with the RB211's on the 400.
I flew them for several years with not so much as a mumur and now its full on failures on a regular basis.
Sandilands point is right, how can QF, without putting itself right in the breach, continue to operate certain remote routes with this knowledge?
To say that the 'rate of failure' is blah blah blah totally overlooks the issue at hand and is simply a management smokescreen.
If a 400 gets in serious problems as a result there will be feathers flying for years and years.
Mind you, in a month, they may not be flying anymore and this problem won't exist.