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November 29, 2010, Monday
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QANTAS Airways chief executive Alan Joyce has said an engine failure on an A380 superjumbo should be blamed on the engine's design and had nothing to do with the airline's operations.
A mid-flight failure of a Rolls-Royce Trent 900 engine on November 4 forced Qantas to ground its six-plane A380 fleet. On Saturday, the airline resumed some A380 operations but four of the planes remain grounded.
Joyce told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation in an interview broadcast yesterday that his airline performed "exceptionally well" over the incident, which forced an A380 with 459 on board to make an emergency landing in Singapore.
"It was a new engine and it was absolutely clear nothing to do with anything Qantas was doing," Joyce told Inside Business in a recorded interview. "It was an engine that didn't perform to the parameters that we would've expected."
Although he admitted the bill was "still mounting", he said that Qantas' handling of the incident had probably enhanced its brand rather than damaged it.
"In the research we're doing, people are aware that this was a Rolls-Royce problem, so that when we survey the general population the vast majority of people know that there's a problem with the design of the engines," he said.
Joyce dismissed several other incidents involving turn-backs of Qantas planes since November 4 as minor in global aviation terms, saying there were "hundreds of them that take place every year".
"It's how you handle them, and how you manage them," he said. "And each one of these when I look at them I can see that Qantas performed exceptionally well in how it managed them."
Safety remained the airline's top priority, he said.
Joyce said that Qantas was maintaining some restrictions on its A380s, and they would not yet be operating across the Pacific to Los Angeles.
A mid-flight failure of a Rolls-Royce Trent 900 engine on November 4 forced Qantas to ground its six-plane A380 fleet. On Saturday, the airline resumed some A380 operations but four of the planes remain grounded.
Joyce told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation in an interview broadcast yesterday that his airline performed "exceptionally well" over the incident, which forced an A380 with 459 on board to make an emergency landing in Singapore.
"It was a new engine and it was absolutely clear nothing to do with anything Qantas was doing," Joyce told Inside Business in a recorded interview. "It was an engine that didn't perform to the parameters that we would've expected."
Although he admitted the bill was "still mounting", he said that Qantas' handling of the incident had probably enhanced its brand rather than damaged it.
"In the research we're doing, people are aware that this was a Rolls-Royce problem, so that when we survey the general population the vast majority of people know that there's a problem with the design of the engines," he said.
Joyce dismissed several other incidents involving turn-backs of Qantas planes since November 4 as minor in global aviation terms, saying there were "hundreds of them that take place every year".
"It's how you handle them, and how you manage them," he said. "And each one of these when I look at them I can see that Qantas performed exceptionally well in how it managed them."
Safety remained the airline's top priority, he said.
Joyce said that Qantas was maintaining some restrictions on its A380s, and they would not yet be operating across the Pacific to Los Angeles.
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