Originally Posted by
oldmako
1. Breaking? Pure Crap. The bus is very reliable. Maintenance is only as good, or as poor as Wacker wants it to be.
2. Spare Parts...whose responsibility is that? Airbuses's or Jeff's?
3. TV's. See number two above. The only busses without movie screens are the ones the new UCAL management team has retrofitted with the crap seats and without entertainment. More cheap pizza.
I commute on fifi all the time, no gripe about the new seats. I thought each new seat airframe had wifi installed instead of seat back monitors to save hardware/weight. The six extra seats combined with wifi adds just a little bit of revenue per flight...to help pay for our coming top dog contract....
It appears previous management halted anticorrosion maint. It is being addressed...with at least 120 fifis on property through 2020 the company has no choice...
I admit to having "cockpit tray table" envy....once we get large numbers of A350 and B787 airframes we can finally retire old widebodies that lack individual seat amenities....the customers only care about what's available in their seat.....