Condor cuts speed to aid reliability

RUNNING engines more slowly and a longer down-time between sailings will be the keys to avoiding Condor's crippling engine troubles and delays, its managing director has said.

Simon Edsall (pictured) said the 2011 schedule was a direct response to the negative feedback received by disappointed customers this summer.

'Obviously we had a lot of problems this summer and we spent a lot of time investigating a new way of operating,' he said.

The first major change will be that all ferries will run engines at five per cent lower revolutions per minute.

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