NZ flight cancellations over Xmas, thanks to Rolls Royce
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NZ flight cancellations over Xmas, thanks to Rolls Royce
Air NZ cancels 82 international flights over Christmas period due to engines
"Air New Zealand has cancelled some of its international flights due to ongoing issues with its Rolls-Royce engines.The national carrier says maintenance requirements has forced it to cancel some 82 flights, affecting 14,000 customers travelling between 10 December and 5 January.
Most of the cancelled flights were between Christchurch and Perth, as well as Auckland and Sydney, with limited disruption between Auckland and Tonga.
The airline said it would begin processing changes to customer bookings this week and then contact affected passengers.
Air New Zealand spokersperson Dave Wilson said the airline had been performing regular checks on the engines since April and had been doing all it could to fast-track the required maintenance from Rolls-Royce, but there was a significant wait for repair services.
The airline warned there may be further cancellations."
Seems like any airline with RR engines on the 787 is on a very long road to normality... One can only hope Air NZ (and others) are properly compensated by RR. Although it is almost impossible to compensate for the loss in reputation.
Forget compensation for Air NZ, what about the disrupted holiday and business plans for the passengers. For one, my family is booked BNE-ALK-LAX in December and onwards plus return in January...
Northern winter should have allowed them to ACMI some Euro jets and send that bill to RR...
Poor planning = poor results!
Northern winter should have allowed them to ACMI some Euro jets and send that bill to RR...
Poor planning = poor results!
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To whom are you referring?
My family is booked for 10 Dec ex-BNE to LAX via AKL.
https://www.airnewzealand.co.nz/travel-alerts
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"Air New Zealand senior manager of customer care and communications Doug Grant said that while the airline never expected to still be facing issues with Rolls-Royce Trent 1000 engines, it's focused on minimising impact to customers."
You sound like one of those people who requires a train company to have 100 buses available in rush hour when their operations turn to custard due to a suicide.
The RR engine issue are well known in the industry and I know ANZ would have been fully briefed by RR not just yeaterday.
Poor performance by RR is like the RB211 saga of early days when Cathay referred to their L1011's at Bi-Stars not Tri-Stars...
We have not been contacted by Air NZ and our issue is connections in LAX to ATL plus other stuff.
Poor performance by RR is like the RB211 saga of early days when Cathay referred to their L1011's at Bi-Stars not Tri-Stars...
We have not been contacted by Air NZ and our issue is connections in LAX to ATL plus other stuff.
The RR engine issue are well known in the industry and I know ANZ would have been fully briefed by RR not just yeaterday.
Poor performance by RR is like the RB211 saga of early days when Cathay referred to their L1011's at Bi-Stars not Tri-Stars...
We have not been contacted by Air NZ and our issue is connections in LAX to ATL plus other stuff.
Poor performance by RR is like the RB211 saga of early days when Cathay referred to their L1011's at Bi-Stars not Tri-Stars...
We have not been contacted by Air NZ and our issue is connections in LAX to ATL plus other stuff.
Neither BNE-AKL nor AKL-LAX are listed as being effected... especially since AKL-LAX (which you’re concerned about due connections) is serviced by the 777.
But don’t let that get in the way of a good moan on the bandwagon.
As for the issues being ongoing... while that’s true, the situation is constantly evolving. RR continue to let Airlines down when their “fixes” end up being band-aids rather than a permanent solution. Inspections, (particularly on the TEN engines) keep getting brought forward which almost always results in a few fails as components “wear out earlier than forecast”. The ones that don’t break then have their EDTO approvals slashed as they reach certain cycle limits which effects certain Airlines more than others due to their Geographical location.
Its an absolute cluster f@$k.
Thanks for that update. Much appreciated. The way it was first reported here didn't offer and real details.
PS: Why did we choose ANZ over VA and QF? On the day requested they did not have any availability of our seat class for more than one person. [Mostly QF myself and a little others..]
PS: Why did we choose ANZ over VA and QF? On the day requested they did not have any availability of our seat class for more than one person. [Mostly QF myself and a little others..]
That won't be much use if RR goes broke. The damages from this would be causing a world of hurt to RR.
Not just RR - every major engine manufacturer has had problems with their latest generation of engines
You get the idea that they're stretching things beyond the limits under pressure to deliver that extra 1% in fuel efficiency - there are no contingency margins left
You get the idea that they're stretching things beyond the limits under pressure to deliver that extra 1% in fuel efficiency - there are no contingency margins left
Even with the ongoing issues with the Trent (and others), the overall reliability of the latest generation of engines is an order of magnitude better than it was 40 years ago. You just notice it more because today few aircraft have more than two engines.
There was a good reason why 40 years ago, all long range aircraft had three or four engines...