What a mess. My thoughts are with all the Air New Zealanders who have had an absolute disaster of a day. Really sad to see the airline's long haul network collapsing like this. Thoughts in particular with Aerorobnz who is no doubt under a lot of stress to try and keep the airline's network "working" despite all of this. Similarly for all the customer facing staff who have to deal with lots of unhappy/stressed passengers.
How soon are the HiFly reinforcements arriving? Do we know what type it will be (I'll definitely do an extra TransTasman trip if there's an A340-500 operating for Air New Zealand). Any news on what happened to ZK-NZL, I hope its not out of service for long?
Deepinsider wrote:NZ 787 rescheduling
Just why is it that these refuel stops are needed?
They're reducing the fuel load on departure (so that less engine power is needed).
planemanofnz wrote:ZK-NBT wrote:... will stop at GUM to top up.
Cool - AKL - GUM in the future, anyone? AFAIK, it can be done with the NEO.
On a lighter note, I guess none of us here guessed that Guam would be Air New Zealand's newest Pacific Rim destination.
planemanofnz wrote:ZKOXA wrote:Air New Zealand has had to ground two more 787s because of the ongoing RR engine issues.
I wonder whether this whole debacle will influence NZ's upcoming long-haul aircraft and engine order this year?
Which direction would if affect the order? On one hand the A350's engines have had an excellent reliability, but are made by Rolls Royce, who nodoubt aren't very popular in the Air New Zealand board room. On the other hand the 777x's engines are completely unproven; they're not even certified yet, so who knows what problems they might have? Would all the current chaos caused by Rolls Royce result in them giving Air New Zealand a PBTH offer for Trent XWBs that they can't refuse?
By the time that the first 77E replacement arrives (2022), the A350 will have been in service 7 years, the 777x 3 years (assuming that certification, testing and production goes as planned - which it might not).