reliability? residual value? passenger capacity? supplier rebates? maintenance costs? pilot & engineer preferences? technology? - could be many other factors to take into consideration......
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Yes all these things are no doubt considered, reliability being extremely important. Boeing with Dreamliner (engine) problems and 737 MAX software issues are unlikely to have a high reliability score at the moment.
Quite worrying if true what Benny1 says above that compensation from RR will come in the form of discounts of new engines !! The damage/loss has been done already and RR should be compensating now, not sometime in the future and only IF AIR buys more engines of them.
So if true about RR, if they do not pick RR engines for whichever aircraft they decide on, the $40M odd (think it was around that much) will never be recovered??
Not so fast - just calling a spade a spade.
Which other airline producer supplied recently new planes with build in crash mechanism - other than Boeing? AIR was just lucky they had no need for the 737 Max 8 - who knows which other bugs Boeing did oversee in their planes?
Why would the software for the other new Boeing planes be any better?
Boeing's processes are clearly not up to scratch - and they didn't even admit their haphazard engineering approach after the first crash but happily allowed another plane to go down and kill its passengers.
Ah yes - and buying Boeings with RR engines was an amazing idea, wasn't it?
Not sure why AIR would pick them, but it clearly can't be with safety, reliability, range or economy in mind.
Didn’t an AIR Airbus crash about 10 years killing all aboard.
Yes it did but was operated by XL airways and about to be handed over the AIR. Caused by human error https://nzhistory.govt.nz/page/air-n...crashes-france
Wikipedia are saying that the A350 Airbus is powered exclusively by the RR Trent 1000 engine,so if they are getting a credit from RR they would have to be looking at the A350?
The A350 engine is actually a RR Trent XWB which was developed from the RR Trent 1000 according to Wikipedia.
Nobody expected them to foresee the recent issues. However - given that they seem to be happy to ignore them in their decision to buy future planes, any further issue with Boeing planes will fall back on them.
The problem with serious design flaws is, that they are like cockroaches. If there is one which slipped through their quality system, there are likely to be more which did the same. Hard to see why AIR wants to take this risk if the alternative is anyway better ...
My guess is they will run with the 787-9 and hope it finally becomes a Dreamliner with the much more reliable GE engines.
Surely the directors and senior management team are well aware that with all the substantial disruption caused by the faulty RR engines AIR has suffered some brand damage and the prudent thing to do is irrespective of whatever favorable deal RR come up with, is to take the substantially lower risk option and run with GE engines.
Worth noting that GE engines can be retrofitted on existing aircraft.
The Troughers are getting a pay freeze my heart bleeds for them. Lol