Quality is a genuine concern for a customer buying any product in the market. As a young child I remember accompanying my mother to the bazaar where there were some toys on sale. As is the want of children, I had sought one of those very toys only to be rebuked by the experienced lady – they are Chinese and will not last, she had prophetically said. Although this story is two decades old, nothing seems to have changed – the litany of complaints against poor-quality Chinese products continues even today. This article, however, is not about cheap, poor-quality Chinese toys but about high-end military weapons and systems where poor quality and workmanship have proved to be a bane for customers.
Nepal Airlines has found this out the hard way. The airlines has grounded six Chinese-made aircraft saying that it is proving to be unaffordable to fly them. The pilots and ground crew at Nepal Airlines, as per a Wion report, repeatedly told their management that the Chinese-made planes were causing heavy losses ever since they were acquired between 2014 and 2018, and that these should be grounded to check further losses. These sub-standard planes required heavy maintenance with extremely poor serviceability rates. Finally, in 2020, nearly six years after the first batch landed in Kathmandu, the board of Nepal Airlines took the decision to ground these planes.
Of the six planes, two were given as grant by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and four were bought in a...
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