AIR will be paying - reduce the yield?
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CRUDE OIL CRASHES ON SURGING US OUTPUT and JET FUEL follows
http://www.afr.com/business/energy/o...0180207-h0vozg
http://airlines.org/argus-us-jet-fuel-index/
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/artic...-issues-emerge
A320neo engine issues.
Oh dear....here we go again....
At least Air NZ aren't operating any of these as of yet...
Don't know if this will impact on the delivery schedule for these later this year
This is just the latest in a series of issues with those engines as you know. Probably just better to fit engines that have proven to be reliable.
To be fair, just about all new engines in the past 70 years have had their problems in early service before finally being fixed enough to be reliable. The engines on the early 747 planes in the early '70s were a problem for years with replacement engines being regularly taken to remote places - they were mounted as a dummy '5th engine' on other 747s.
The newer engines are technologically more advanced, hence the enormous amount of design, testing and refinement that goes into them. However, not all problems can be foreseen; one of the problems I've read about relates to slightly uneven cooling of a rotorblade shaft that caused quicker wear & tear than expected and this was only picked up after thousands of hours of service.
How about going back to piston engines....
"Federal Aviation Administration studies indicate that piston engines in aircraft have a failure rate, on average, of one every 3,200 flight hours while turbine engines have a failure rate of one per 375,000 flight hours. Accordingly, for every turbine engine experiencing a failure, 117 piston engines will have failed."
Https://www.profsurv.com/magazine/article.aspx?i=1950
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/n...ectid=11991912 Taking into account their only slightly superior load capability I struggle to see the c apex economics of these $500m aircraft vs a Dreamliner which can carry ~ 85% of the load for half the retail price ? AIR let it slip that their Dreamliners cost just $150m so Airbus wanting anything like close to $500m retail looks like a stretch to me. Shareholders will be hoping AIR have enough problems with their shiny new toys to keep them busy from being tempted with this one, (which uses a another variant of the Rolls Royce Trent engine).
Booked this weekend our flights for a trip to Singapore later this year. Checked four alternatives and AIR was in terms of price the most expensive option. In terms of flight-quality (duration, convenience - all four are safe airlines ;)) was the AIR option in the middle of the range.
You guess it - we booked an alternative (in this case the one with the Kangaroo on the tail). Their route to SIN is quite competitive - and we even can take more luggage with us (not that we are likely to use the full 30 kg per passenger).
Start to wonder, whether I still need to include AIR on my short list for future (overseas) trips - it is some time since they made the race.