Airbus A380 Woes Continue

[Mike W]

Originally Posted by Andrew

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?