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originally posted by: Zaphod58
a reply to: anonentity
Properly stored aircraft can sit for years and be brought back to service with few if any issues. Two B-52s were brought back from storage after seven and twelve years respectively. They’re both flying with no issues.
The problem with Qantas isn’t the length of time the aircraft were stored, it’s that they’re trying to save money, and they did it by cutting maintenance costs. They have fewer engineers, doing two or three times the work between regenerating aircraft and keeping their current aircraft flying. It’s catching up to them.
originally posted by: Zaphod58
a reply to: 38181
This has nothing to do with the Boeing-Airbus competition though. This is purely Qantas trying to do things on the cheap and cutting staff in their maintenance department.