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Old 20th May 2010, 08:44 PM
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Originally Posted by Andrew View Post
The problems with the A380 to-date compared to when the 777/744 or other Airbus aircraft were introduced have been less significant.

Dispatch remains at 97-98% which is better then what the 744 was at the same stage of development and when the 744 was introduced it was below 90%. Industry standard is 98.5%

A recent publication might shed some light on causes of reliability issues to-date:
Airbus are measuring themselves against an aircraft brought to market 20+ years ago? One would think advancements in technology (despite associated increases in complexity) would render improvements in despatch reliability. Surely?
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