I'll be flying to Asia later in the year, for the TRANSPAC segments I'll be on the 777. Those are great planes, IMHO.
I'll be flying to Asia later in the year, for the TRANSPAC segments I'll be on the 777. Those are great planes, IMHO.
I still prefer the 747’s but its getting harder and harder to fly them
I work at NWA for 17+ years and we call our A320’s “Scarebuses”.
All Airbuses are socialist, subsidized designs with minimalism written all over the design specs.
The A320 family is fraught with either crack warranty work for framing members that join the main deck to the fuselage where the wings meet the fuselage or warranty work on the pintles for the landing gear that had fasteners that were close tolerance fasteners, instead of interference fasteners, that led to the worrying of the holes and eventual replacement of said fasteners with interference fit fasteners which led to reaming, cold working, reaming and dedicated fasteners for each hole in the rear spar (part of the wet wing[fuel]), instead of one type/size fastener. All of these dedicated fasteners have to be tracked for the rest of the airframes life. What a maintenance nightmare.
There was also warranty work for the framing area of the tail strike area.
All of this warranty work was subsidized as was the original design and production of the A320 by the EU...no wonder they're collapsing.
BTW, the A350 is the wannabe competitor for the 787.....good luck with that Airbus.
Airbus is only short term competitive on price because of the subsidizing....it's as simple as that.
Even the avionics are cheap...Team, an Airbus avionics supplier, doesn't use gold plated pins internally in the board interconnect connectors.
I fought with them for several years before they would admit the the “dirty pins” was in fact galvanic corrosion occurring.
Pieces of crap....is all I can say....(after all that????).