From the Press Release this morning.
“Qantas has invested heavily over the past 10 years in new aircraft that are more advanced, more efficient,
attractive to our customers and require less maintenance, less often. But we cannot take advantage of this new generation of aircraft if we continue to do heavy maintenance in the same way we did 10 years ago.
Last time I saw an A380 (yesterday) it had its cowls open and a plethera of engineers around it. This is ops normal for A380 Line Maintenence.
I feel for the guys in MEL as I did for those when SYD Heavy was shut down.