Arcacian Airlines Cancels A380s

PROVIDENCE - Arcacian Airlines has today cancelled its order for 2 Airbus A380s following the engine explosion of a Qantas A380 over Indonesia. Qantas flight 32 was en route from Singapore to Sydney when the engine exploded, forcing the aircraft to return to Singapore for an emergency landing. Parts of the engine cowling rained down on a heavily populated Indonesian island. Miraculously, no-one on the ground was injured or killed by the debris. No-one on board the crippled plane was injured. Qantas and Singapore Airlines have grounded there entire A380 fleets.

Arcacian Airlines says the incident, which occurred on a 2 year old aircraft that had only recently been serviced in Germany, raises serious concerns about the A380. Arcacian Airlines has given the contract for its new aircraft to Boeing and has extended its order of 787s to 4 and has expressed interest in the 747-8.

Arcacian Airlines also says that the Qantas incident was not the Australian airline's fault and that the issue is with Airbus and Rolls Royce. Arcacian Airlines does not use Rolls Royce engines on any of its aircraft and does not have any Airbus aircraft in its fleet.

Did Arcacian even BUY A380s in the first place? I've never heard about it

Ah thats yesterday news here. Thats happen 9.15 in Batam, which I heard from news.
Consindering to that accident, Air Karasem also canceled to buy new A380 and will check the whole A380 which already been bough.

You guys can opt for the Engine Alliance (GE & PW) GP2000 instead of the RR Trent 900 that was involved in yesterday's incident.

Yes, i'm defending the A380's position here

Arcacian Airlines had ordered 2 A380s. They hadn't yet taken delivery, nor finalised the contract. The order was only placed last week.

Oh...

Since when did Arcacian actually go to Airbus for aircraft? I thought they preferred Boeing?

They do. There was a decision taken a couple of months ago to buy 2 A380s to serve the high demand routes to Los Angeles and London. It was all very new and this incident has put the kibosh on it completely.

The cancellation actually came from the pilots who sent a very brief letter to management. Here it is in its entirety:

AAG Pilots Association
PO Box 365
Providence, PR 1001

General Manager
Fleet Management
Arcacian Airlines Group
PO Box 737
Providence, PR 1001

Thursday 4 November 2010

Dear Sir,

If it's not Boeing, we're not going.

Yours sincerely,
AAG Pilots Association

BTW, another Qantas 747 had an engine failure after leaving Singapore

*puts fingers in ears*

LA LA LA LA LA L A I CAN'T HEAR YOU LA LA LA LA LA LA

"Looks like BOEING AIN'T GOING ANYWHERE NEITHER."

YAY Airbus!

747 is amazing, airbus fail, who wants to be in a bus... Boeing all the way

Daniel wrote:*puts fingers in ears*

LA LA LA LA LA L A I CAN'T HEAR YOU LA LA LA LA LA LA

I though both Airbus an Boeing had downside but it just a small part of the whole company which both have many awesomeness.

I have no bias. If its the best for the job, it gets the job.