A380 Lessons Drive A350 Maintenance Approach

By Robert Wall wall@aviationweek.com .
MADRID .

Airbus is looking to avoid some of the issues it has had on A380 health monitoring messages as it develops the A350 twin widebody.

With the A380, there have been complaints that too many fault messages have added rather than subtracted to the maintenance burden for operators. But on the A350, that should not be the case. “We will have roughly 30% fewer ...