Qantas aircraft order reduction
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Originally Posted by mmciau
Fine analysis of the old "Tojo" but you missed the mass of spot welds that have sheared because mum kept banging the car against the gutter - read "the rivets are spinning in their holes on the fuselage"
Say what you like, but our Sydney HM facility was "Worlds best practice"..as far as WB aircraft go, challenged only by Melbourne (TULLAMARINE !! ) HM as "Worlds best practice" for NB aircraft.
Originally Posted by boomerang
The Toyota analogy is nice. And will work if you're carting the kids around. On the other hand if you pull up at Changi terminal 1 to pick me up, I'll wait for the Prius :-)
IMHO, 99% of the SLF DON'T KNOW what sort of airplane they're getting into.
They've had their "perception" set by buying their LCC or legacy airline ticket.
If Qantas are selling them a "Legacy Airline" ticket, they don't expect to be nickel & dimed every stop of the way.
They've paid for a premium class airline and they want a premium class experience.
Put them (domestically) in a 734 or (internationally) in a 767 and they wouldn't have a clue who the manufacturer of the airplane was.
But they DO know that the carpets had worn patches on them and daggy black tape over a lot of the carpet seams, they DO know that the sidewalls haven't been white or scratch-free for many years, they DO know that their seat cover is stained and their magazine pocket if frayed.
They DO see that the ceiling / PSU panels are all out of alignment and the filler is falling out between many of the overhead locker bins.
They DO notice that the toilet looks like it hasn't had a deep clean for years and that their "meal" is a "cup" of spring water and two cookies.
Spend the $1,000 at the panel-beater and the trimmer, toss out the Tandy 8-Track cassette and accept that CUSTOMERS on you "legacy airline" are paying premium prices and expect their airplane to look nice and clean and their meal to be more then water and cookies.
The people flying on the LCCs don't expect to be flying on brand-new aircraft with all the bells and whistles, yet in out fleet they are the ones with the brand-new aircraft ?
Any way you count the $$'s "reconditioning" the existing QF fleet, that owes you nothing, has to be way more cost effective then giving them away and buying new airplanes.
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