I am a pretty nervous flyer. I personally will not EVER fly on Nancy Bird. Thankfully my fare would allow a last minute change if it ever came up.
You are not alone. I don't know the numbers, but a very large percentage of the people that I talk to in flight admit to some degree of nervousness.
My reason is due to a few previoos hull loses which have occured to aircraft involved in previous "incidents". (
Japan Airlines Flight 123 and
China Airlines Flight 611) They are both Tail Strikes but are the ones I can remember for now.
The list of aircraft lost as a result of maintenance activity is pretty long. But, so too is the list of aircraft which have had issues for which there was never any maintenance involved. I really don't consider there to be any difference between an aircraft that has been repaired by the manufacturer and one which has just come off the production line.
In the case of OJK...they made up an enormous jig to carry the loads, and proceeded to remove the structure of the aircraft back to manufacturing joints. There were no doublers, or actual 'repair's...just new bits, inserted exactly where it would have happened when originally made.
A380 being such a new aircraft... I think no-one can yet know how all the damage will be repaired and what any long term, yet unknown things could occur. I don't want to be a guinea pig!
I think you might be surprised. The aircraft may be new, but it wasn't designed to be just used and thrown away. Repair procedures are part of the design of any new aircraft...in fact, if an aircraft had to be scrapped as a result of a turbine failure, then I would consider it very poor design indeed. Airbus, most definitely considered the possibility, and that shows up in the placement of many items that could be in the burst area.
Basically I consider most of what has been said about repairing or scrapping her to be just the normal internet gibberish.
Will it be repaired where it is, or partially repaired an flown to Toulouse to go back onto the production line. No idea....I'm sure that hasn't been decided. But, I'm quite sure she won't come back with a bunch of patches and some bog. I expect she will be 'as new'.
If it was just the engine.. I would think differently.
All aircraft, with no exceptions, will have many issues throughout their lives.