Qantas August 23rd announcements
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Arnold, I think he means qantas' capital expenditure is already stretched with all those 320s on order without coughing up more for 787s.
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You wait, they will cancel the A320s next.
So where do the 135 A320s go
One thing that the press never picks up AJ on is his constant reference to fleet age being very low. When he quotes this, he is always talking about the total Group fleet including JQ. When you do QF alone, the average fleet age is 11 years, which is average by world standards not the 8.3 years quoted in the investor presentation. JQ's average fleet age is 5 years.
Hopefully the QF average will decline as the final 734s leave the fleet but it will be much higher than the group average for the forseeable future.
Hopefully the QF average will decline as the final 734s leave the fleet but it will be much higher than the group average for the forseeable future.
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Not to mention, joyce says we're closing maintenance facilities as new aircraft don't need as much work, like a new car. Now that he's cancelled the 787s, what new aircraft is he talking about?
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Now that he's cancelled the 787s, what new aircraft is he talking about?
So many holes in what AJ says going unchallenged by people who should know.... gives us little hope for the future direction of Qantas, it's all about J*
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Can anyone explain why it is financially beneficial for a LCC to turn over an aircraft every 10 years but not financially beneficial for a Full Service airline to do the same?
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Originally Posted by HF3000
Can anyone explain why it is financially beneficial for a LCC to turn over an aircraft every 10 years but not financially beneficial for a Full Service airline to do the same?
It IS beneficial for a Full Service airline to do the same.
Provided they get rid of all the service elements that support the older aircraft - smaller maintenance team, smaller tech team, smaller everything i.e they need to "get rid" of vast numbers of people working in the "old way".
That costs them redundancy money so I guess it's not absolutely as beneficial but in the long run that's where they will head. Numbers will be wound down and many positions will go the way of manual telephone exchange operators - tens of people replaced with just one and an automated system.
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Originally Posted by HF3000
Can anyone explain why it is financially beneficial for a LCC to turn over an aircraft every 10 years but not financially beneficial for a Full Service airline to do the same?
Originally Posted by HF3000
Can anyone explain why it is financially beneficial for a LCC to turn over an aircraft every 10 years but not financially beneficial for a Full Service airline to do the same?
It IS beneficial for a Full Service airline to do the same.
Provided they get rid of all the service elements that support the older aircraft - smaller maintenance team, smaller tech team, smaller everything i.e they need to "get rid" of vast numbers of people working in the "old way".
Yes. Just ask Team A380 how little maintenance they do on their aircraft. They require more people on a transit than a 747. More things go wrong with the highly "advanced" systems and continual failures of the electronic seats and gizmos at the front of the aeroplane.
That costs them redundancy money so I guess it's not absolutely as beneficial but in the long run that's where they will head. Numbers will be wound down and many positions will go the way of manual telephone exchange operators - tens of people replaced with just one and an automated system.
Provided they get rid of all the service elements that support the older aircraft - smaller maintenance team, smaller tech team, smaller everything i.e they need to "get rid" of vast numbers of people working in the "old way".
That costs them redundancy money so I guess it's not absolutely as beneficial but in the long run that's where they will head. Numbers will be wound down and many positions will go the way of manual telephone exchange operators - tens of people replaced with just one and an automated system.
That costs them redundancy money so I guess it's not absolutely as beneficial but in the long run that's where they will head. Numbers will be wound down and many positions will go the way of manual telephone exchange operators - tens of people replaced with just one and an automated system.
The redundancies we have seen in the engineering side of things is more to do with removing the legacy of the TN era, MOC/Heavy Maintenance and consolidating it in one place, Sydney.
The only advancement is the shared liability of the newly built airliners being outsourced to many different manufactures, having the balls to delay the periodic inspections, A checks, C checks etc, to levels which make the current era of jets seem maintenance intensive. How successful that will be remains to be seen - and I think most will believe it when they see it.
At least the A380 has provided plenty of jobs for the guys who would've been made redundant in Sydney when they closed down that engine shop a few years ago. You gotta thank airbus for that at least.
Can anyone explain why it is financially beneficial for a LCC to turn over an aircraft every 10 years but not financially beneficial for a Full Service airline to do the same?
- LCC aircraft tend to accumulate cycles very quickly.
- LCCs tend to want to avoid heavy maintenance "D" checks
Some of the other posters are probably correct that legacy airlines would love to turn over their aircraft quicker and some of the wealther ones (SQ/EK for example) do.
I'm not technical so can't contribute as to whether modern aircraft need less maintenance. My hunch is that they need different maintenance and that tends to be more of the pull out, throw away then replace rather than the older style reconditioning. I assume aircraft are part of the throw away age, just like everything else.
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The JQ A330 fleet will be due for D checks from 2014 onwards, I bet any money these aircraft will be transferred back to mainline just before they are due and mainline (most likely the international division) will foot the bill.
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You'll notice the JQ 330's are on lease from QF, as such, QF are responsible for maintenance on these aircraft anyway. The bill has already been looked after!
You'll notice the JQ 330's are on lease from QF, as such, QF are responsible for maintenance on these aircraft anyway. The bill has already been looked after!
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Originally Posted by 600
Or so the spin goes. I wonder why these new advanced aircraft such as the A380, so advanced it almost fixes itself, for some reason has quite a few more engineers attending this aircraft when it rolls into the gate? whereas the old, maintenance intensive 767s and 747s don't ?
Plus they get to work on sorting out those initial glitches so extra manpower as a risk mitigator is easily justified.
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The a380 is a manpower pig no matter how you spin it. It will always require extra engineers in comparison to a 747. It's over-complicated, over-sized, fragile and unreliable. It's been in-service 4 years and has barely improved in all regards. The Aj statement re the a380 requiring less maintenance is completely false. Feel free to argue but I work it daily and know the facts
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Originally Posted by boog
The a380 is a manpower pig no matter how you spin it. It will always require extra engineers in comparison to a 747. It's over-complicated, over-sized, fragile and unreliable. It's been in-service 4 years and has barely improved in all regards. The Aj statement re the a380 requiring less maintenance is completely false. Feel free to argue but I work it daily and know the facts
Have you calculated it over the lifetime of the aircraft?