Airbus sets date for first A330neo delivery to TAP

"William Baker" (why the lower-case "b"??): Allow me to add the first positive flag!

Periodically, airline use exposed different areas of the engines to stress. Standing alongside the runways at LHR, it is evident that BA drivers run the engines on 787 Dreamliners in a different manner to, say, Virgin drivers on the Dreamliners with identical engines.

Remember the original P&W JT9Ds on the original 747. I remember Eric Moody (BA driver and famous for the 1982 747 "Galunggung glider" incident with volcanic ash over Indonesia) remarking (in the 747 50-year documentary earlier this year) that he recalled 22 engine failures (and he described 13 of them as "real failures"). Boeing, P&W and the early airline customers worked together to solve the problem.

On a slightly frivolous note, you'd be safe in an A330. The Airbus A330-241 holds the record for the longest unpowered glide in history. In 2001, Air Transat drivers managed to piss some 13 tons of kerosene out over the Atlantic and *just* managed to reach Lajes in the Azores after it all went quiet.

The Trent 7000 issues are apparentlyu supply-chain related rather than technical. But that is taken from a Press Release....

Just out of curiosity and watch this get negativity flagged. But is the engine safe and reliable????? The airframe should be fine as barely anything changed lol.