Originally Posted by
Bucking Bar
Just a guess, but I suspect it has to do with maintenance. At a former airline an airplane broke in a fun location could take FOREVER to fix ...
Day 1: Maintenance Crew Arrives
Day 3: Wrong part ordered
Day 5: Don't have the right tools ... who knew we would need a Phillips Head screwdriver?
Day 7: Part arrives, wrong dash number
Day 10: Waiting on paperwork from France, but all if Aerospatial is on some sort of mandatory holiday
Day 13: Got paperwork, but mechanics too sunburned to work. One now taking Penicillian and talking about being in love.
Day 15: Airplane fixed but everyone forgot about cure time and the sealant all spewed everywhere when pressurization test done. Must disassemble, clean and re install repair
... and it continues ... . Crew told "airplane will be ready in a couple hours .. you stay at the airport" for several weeks / until they time out / threaten to quit at an outstation.
Go look at the rotation, they flew down to NRT on May 3, then on to SIN on May 4...and sat there until a couple days ago, when they flew 3:45 one day, SIN-SIN, (test flight most likely) and flew 11:15 another day, also SIN-SIN. I'm wondering if that was a "turn back", or a very long test flight?
I know they did a lot of the lie flat seat mods in SIN, I wonder if that's also where they are ripping out the rest facility?
I wonder how many wives had an all expenses paid, 3 week trip to Singapore.