Originally Posted by craz

All I can say is many a year ago I was on a TWA 747 to TLV (forget if it was CDG-TLV or JFK-TLV) either way the capt made an announcement that those who looked at the plane before boarding or out the window arent imagining anything, yes we are flying with 5 engines today 2 on 1 side and 3 on the other. Reason was TWA needed an engine for its plane in TLV and was given one or lent 1 whatever and now it was being ferried back.

So if TWA was able to do that why couldnt LY do it with whomever @ JFK, flight lands they put on a different engine and ferry the old one back on the flight back to TLV, if they wanted to fix it there rather then in NY