Surely no-one is silly enough to believe that new planes require no maint
The
rumor (being PP
RuNe) I hear it is that the "NG" A380 - 12 aircraft take up approximately
50% of QF's maintenance costs. Could this be the reason they shelved the later orders? But of course it is unlikely we will ever have any factual evidence or confirmation of this slip of the tongue.
fischers.ghost, go back and read my post
#1144 in this thread. Perhaps things are not always as they seem, perhaps there was another reason for the lock-out. Could the industrial dispute be a smoke screen to justify such an
apparently self-defeating act of commercial stupidity. The actions of the lock-out do not appear consistent with the threat, exactly as you say. There are ways to publicly signal certain course of action, yet these were not used. The only conclusion is that the intention was to generate a shock, the question is why? There may be a method to the madness.