Originally Posted by
p.j.m
Not only the A380's, every night I hear QF25 fly overhead on its way to Japan, you can tell when the older B747's are being used, because they "whine" like they are struggling to keep running. The more modern ones don't have the whine.
Clearly they need more and better maintenance.
Oh please!!! Whining is a characteristic of the engine, RR are not whiny but GE are excessively whiny. It's nothing to do with maintenance. I'd put my money on QF 747-400s still being amongst the most well looked after and best maintained in the world. The A380 issues are because it is a CRAP aircraft as all Airbus product is... I for one would be happier to see Qantas do something innovative-ish and dump the 12 A380s and replace them with 777-10 or 747-8i.