Thai Airways (THAI) is fed up with Rolls-Royce, joining a growing backlash over delays in jet engine maintenance that’s forcing its fleet into prolonged downtime.

 

CEO Chai Eamsiri has revealed that the airline’s Boeing 787 Dreamliners are now waiting up to 120 days for engine maintenance, a stark increase from the previous 90-day standard—a time frame he already considered frustrating.

 

“We send it for a shop visit, and it doesn’t come back. It used to be 90 days. Now it’s longer, toward 120 days.”

 

THAI’s criticism joins a rising chorus among major airlines as Rolls-Royce struggles to meet soaring maintenance demands for its Trent 1000 engines. British Airways and Virgin Atlantic have even had to suspend routes, blaming engine delays that have kept their planes grounded. In a scramble to address the crisis, Rolls-Royce announced it has formed a task force to speed up repairs, drawing on specialists from operations, supply chain, engineering, technology, and planning.

 

 

The prolonged downtime is hitting the national carrier particularly hard, with one of its fewer-than-10 Rolls-Royce-powered Dreamliners now grounded entirely without an engine. Chai noted the engines are spending more time in the workshop than in the sky, a situation that’s impacting airlines globally.

While he admits that “it’s not getting worse, but it should be better,” THAI isn’t taking any chances—earlier this year, it ordered 45 new Boeing 787s, opting for General Electric engines instead.

 

With delays piling up and airlines growing restless, Rolls-Royce faces immense pressure to restore trust in its engines, as well as its reputation among some of the world’s top carriers, reported Bangkok Post.

 

By Puntid Tantivangphaisal

Photo courtesy of Bangkok Post

 

Source: The Thaiger

-- 2024-11-13

 

 

Well, well, since the envelopes from RR dried up and RR was subsequently fined for non-receipt able money transfers between RR and Thai Airways, things seem to have soured up somehow. 

But then there is Pratt&Whitney, General Electric and if you look carefully, you for sure can find a Chinese alternative. If I look at all those airframes standing around at various airports of Thailand, some 5 - 6 A380 permanently parked for years, then I might assume that RRs service intervals and time frames might be the lesser problem. 

Boeing the benchmark for shoddy 

13 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

Thai Airways (THAI) is fed up with Rolls-Royce

Me to 😡

 

These new engines are for aircraft, route BNE to BKK. 

It's annoying to have a stopover when travelling Brisbane 

 

Buy a few more spare engines and the problem is solved!

thai engineers cannot do this ?

 

reschool some thai electricians?

1 hour ago, Snackbar said:

Boeing the benchmark for shoddy 

They may well be but the article is about Rolls Royce aircraft engines. Reading is not your forte it seems. 

Remind me again which of the two companies is banned from flying to the United States because they can't follow basic aviation safety standards. 

23 minutes ago, RandolphGB said:

Remind me again which of the two companies is banned from flying to the United States because they can't follow basic aviation safety standards. 

If you are going for TG you had better look again. They may not apply for new routes but can start again on their old routes.