Chaos around the AUA “Dreamliner”: As the industry portal “Austrian Wings” now reported, not only were there significant delays due to technical problems with the second Boeing 787-9, which has been in service for the Austrian airline since this week, but This also results in flight cancellations.
Austrian Airlines probably imagined the introduction to commercial flights of its second ‘Dreamliner’, which landed in Vienna this week, differently. As “Austrian Wings” reported, problems with OE-LPM identification arose during the machine’s first flights.
Technical problems
It is said that the flight from Vienna to Düsseldorf and back could only be operated with a two-hour delay. Another flight from Vienna to Frankfurt and back even had to be operated by the AUA’s first ‘Dreamliner’. This in turn led to a four-hour delay for the scheduled flight to New York.
Technical problems with a sensor on the engine of the AUA’s second ‘Dreamliner’ are said to have caused Friday’s flight chaos. This was also confirmed to ‘Austrian Wings’ on Saturday by AUA press spokesperson Sophie Matkovits.
“The anti-ice sensor on one engine is defective and needs to be replaced. The spare part has just arrived at Vienna Airport and is being quickly installed and tested so that the aircraft can be returned to service quickly,” the statement said. However, Matkovits did not want to talk about specific ‘engine problems’ because the drive itself was not defective, but the turbine was not fully operational due to the defective sensor.
Flights to Frankfurt and back cancelled
In any case, the problems with the new ‘Dreamliner’ led to flight cancellations on Saturday: the flight from Vienna to Frankfurt and back was cancelled, as was evident from the AUA flight status.
The second ‘Dreamliner’, which was only able to leave for New York a few hours late on Friday, is now on its way back to Austria. According to current flight information, the Boeing 787-9 will only land in Vienna at 3:03 PM instead of 11:55 AM as planned. At 4:55 PM there is finally another flight to New York scheduled.
Source: Krone
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