Etihad Wins A380 Reliability Performance Award
Etihad A380 - Courtesy; Airbus |
Coming on the wings of
receiving the Airbus Operational Reliability Performance Award recently, Etihad
Airways has announced that it recorded a 99.8% reliability in its first
year of operating the Airbus A380, the best performance level yet of any
airline to have introduced the aircraft type. The carrier noted that the
remaining 0.2% of reliability challenges it experienced in the January-December
2015 period did not include any cancellations.
This remarkable feat achieved
by the airline came down to “the sheer hard work and commitment … of our
engineering teams,” said Jeff Wilkinson, Etihad’s Senior Vice President – Technical.
He also disclosed that the carrier had one of the highest rates of daily
utilization of the A380, with a typical turnaround time of only two hours, thereby
underlining its achievement. The Abu Dhabi based airline which currently has six
A380s in its fleet, with four more scheduled for delivery operated its first
A380 service on the Abu Dhabi-London Heathrow route in December 2014.
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