Jetstar what is going on?
It's about time those pesky, trouble making JQ 788's were stood down,given a thorough going over,provided a new red and white uniform and told to front up to mainline.Then they might start to behave.
It's about time those pesky, trouble making JQ 788's were stood down,given a thorough going over,provided a new red and white uniform and told to front up to mainline.Then they might start to behave.
I assume they don't conduct such heavy maintenance locally.
For months now I have been reading about some form of ‘bad luck’ this company has been receiving. I note on last nights news, the bad luck was quoted again in some newly installed executive offering his sympathies, in what would appear was a paid news spot. Last week our business has pushed all new client bookings to Virgin. It appears the customer service part of the business has fallen off a cliff.
Now the technical side. Blunder after Blunder. Fleet breakdowns have been a daily event for as long as I can remember. The 787 fleet clearly needs its heavy check while some old rattlers in the Airbus fleet has cost our business significantly due to breakdowns. What is this about a broken windshield in Hawaii that was only just replaced? Fact or Fiction? Faulty wiring on another 787 in Singapore?
Is it all just ‘bad luck’ or does the C Suite have no idea? Who is actually running the thing?
Now you could say… ‘get what you pay for’ etc.. but it wasn’t this bad a year back or pre covid. It’s all become a disaster within the last half and getting worse.
Now the technical side. Blunder after Blunder. Fleet breakdowns have been a daily event for as long as I can remember. The 787 fleet clearly needs its heavy check while some old rattlers in the Airbus fleet has cost our business significantly due to breakdowns. What is this about a broken windshield in Hawaii that was only just replaced? Fact or Fiction? Faulty wiring on another 787 in Singapore?
Is it all just ‘bad luck’ or does the C Suite have no idea? Who is actually running the thing?
Now you could say… ‘get what you pay for’ etc.. but it wasn’t this bad a year back or pre covid. It’s all become a disaster within the last half and getting worse.
I think it’s high time for the 787s to go, these machines are terrible and so unreliable. Another mishandled cancelation in Hawaii now. ST where are you? If you’re not up for the job step aside.
D checks won’t solve the fleet unreliability, they are early build models, they are scarred for life as one engineer told me, American also having some challenges with early build models. They will return from heavy checks and likely last a day before a whole new range of problems are discovered. At least the A330 could still fly even though it had a few problems here and there, one trusty old girl that kept the schedule in check.
It'd be like buying a bankrupt company, run into the ground by it's management then offering the job in the merged entity.
D checks won’t solve the fleet unreliability, they are early build models, they are scarred for life as one engineer told me, American also having some challenges with early build models. They will return from heavy checks and likely last a day before a whole new range of problems are discovered. At least the A330 could still fly even though it had a few problems here and there, one trusty old girl that kept the schedule in check.
Here we are today with a Boeing that can't go a day without an issue and a venerable development of the A300 in the A330 which obviously fixed all the problems of the earlier type and now picks up the slack for Boeings in the fleet. I'd even tend to say the last 747-8 that rolled of the production line last month, was probably the last decent Boeing aeroplane to be built.
The 787 is again on delivery freeze while Boeing reworks the structural analysis of the forward pressure bulkhead which had been outsourced and screwed up.
Boeing went from being a great engineering firm to a shareholder value firm. They transitioned from making airplanes to making money and outsourced as much of the engineering and building as they could. So they are left with the pathetically anachronistic 737 Max, the 787 lightning rod and someday the much delayed 777x
Boeing went from being a great engineering firm to a shareholder value firm. They transitioned from making airplanes to making money and outsourced as much of the engineering and building as they could. So they are left with the pathetically anachronistic 737 Max, the 787 lightning rod and someday the much delayed 777x
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