Airlines that went all-in on one engine option for the A320neo have spent years dealing with groundings, lost capacity, and repair backlogs.
Air New Zealand cited engine availability as a major factor in pre-tax profit falling over 60% in one year. Air Astana took a $24 million hit to summer earnings from the same engine issues.
The airframes were fine. The problem was having no alternative when the one engine type you depended on went into crisis.
Your SaaS stack is the same: one cloud, one region, and when that provider has an outage or a contract change, you’re the one without options.
We built AirportLabs to run on more than one cloud and to recover seamlessly when one fails. Engine choice in aviation isn’t just about fuel burn - it’s about not betting the fleet on a single point of failure. We think infrastructure choice should be the same.