Solomon Airlines says its Airbus A320 services to Brisbane and return for Wednesday 15th January and Thursday 16th January 2014 were disrupted after an attempted take off on Wednesday was aborted due to some technical issues with its avionics system.
The General Manager of Commercial and Operations, Gus Kraus stated that as a standard safety procedure and following their training, “our flight crew aborted the take-off roll and returned to the parking bay on Wednesday”.
“The Pilot in Command then alerted the airlines executive that the flight had to be aborted prior to take off purely due to a technical glitch on the display reading of one of the screens on the Captain’s display and that there was no immediate danger posed to the aircraft and most especially the passengers on board.”
Mr Kraus said spare parts had to be sourced from Australia on the same day which did arrive on Thursday morning, 16th January.
“And with our engineers working around the clock to try and rectify the situation, unfortunately, the replacement Avionics box continued to persist with problems in the reading which then rendered the aircraft unserviceable.
“The Thursday flight was then cancelled as well.
“Arrangements have been finalised for an alternative aircraft to cater for Friday for most of the delayed/disrupted passengers and whilst the issue is being addressed, our disrupted passengers are taken care of under our disruption policy.
“All passengers were advised to contact the airline today for further updates of their onward flights and a revised departure time from Honiara was given as of yesterday and Solomon Airlines confirmed it had chartered a Our Airline aircraft that should cater for most, if not all the passengers involved.
“The airline apologized to its valuable travelers for a matter beyond its control and that at no stage was there any danger to the passengers and crew.
“Solomon Airlines is now turning to the weekend to make further charters of other airlines and will notify its intending passengers on the weekend services to Vila and Nadi on proposed alternatives and flights.
“The airline feels for those involved and has indicated that as a single aircraft operator, it has had a good run with its current BUS and is looking at the future when it can support its own future with added aircraft support.”
Source: http://www.solomonstarnews.com
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