News Forum - Thai Airways joins backlash against Rolls-Royce delays

[Thaiger]

Thai Airways (THAI) is fed up with Rolls-Royce, joining a growing backlash over delays in jet engine maintenance that’s forcing its fleet into prolonged downtime. CEO Chai Eamsiri has revealed that the airline’s Boeing 787 Dreamliners are now waiting up to 120 days for engine maintenance, a stark increase from the previous 90-day standard—a time … …

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That's rich coming from a country that doesn't believe in preventative maintenance... how far behind is the PM on buses... dams... roads... etc.

[Pinetree]

There are interesting back stores to the issues around the problems of RR, not least poor recruitment into UK University engineering courses for many years, poor UK engineering teaching, lack of advice on engineering apprenticeships for years, much better salaries out of the UK for skilled engineer's and flip flop UK government policies and finally UK immigration polices by successive governments, preventing or reducing  the recruitment of overseas engineers.