Originally Posted by
sailingfun
Your right, I would not call 95% dispatch reliability very poor for a airliner. I would call it horrendous! I also only pulled one quote I read about the airframe. If all our fleets ran at 95% we would collapse overnight as a airline. Keep in mind this is a airframe that has been in service 3 years. Teething problems should be behind it.
The engines are a completely new design, the airframe is a first generation and the electronics/avionics haven't been used by the manufacturer before. I won't make excuses for it, but as hard as we run our airplanes it doesn't surprise me. I think the engine reliability would benefit from a longer warm up and cool down time. Heat changes and localized heat are what destroys engines. That doesn't square with single engine taxi and minimum start time.