ping the usual suspects...
You beat me by seconds...Guess great minds think alike!
My daughter says America West sucks---wait till I tell her this.
As if we needed another reason!
In addition to having George Soros as their largest stockholder,
using the European aircraft Airbus instead of Boeing jets,
and turning over private passenger records to the govt.,
now we can add this one to the list!
Don't fly JETBLUE--your money is helping George Soros--and maintenance jobs are being sent overseas!! JetBlue doesn't like to publicly discuss these two facts.
Similar rumors about Northwest Airlines.
http://www.kstptv5.com/article/stories/s5516.html
ST. PAUL (AP) - An ambitious plan to expand the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport got off to a fast start when Gov. Tim Pawlenty and Northwest Airlines executives announced it last fall. But on Tuesday, Northwest mechanics and some lawmakers urged a slowdown, saying the plan puts 2,000 jobs at risk.
The "2020 Vision" expansion calls for the demolition of several Northwest maintenance hangars at the airport, to make room for more gates. With those hangars gone, mechanics' jobs would be sure to follow, said Ted Ludwig, president of Aircraft Mechanics Fraternal Association Local 33.
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Who knew I was ahead of the curve 10 years ago when I stopped flying America West! I still have 200,000 skymiles with this LOUSY Airline which I NEVER use. However, it's a Win-Win: They don't respect me as a passenger/customer and I take my business to Delta and American.
The US has the highest standards of Aircraft Maintenance in the world.
I finance US manufactured aircraft for export to foreign countries.
I can not finance a US manufactured aircraft for export if that aircraft has been maintained outside of the US.
There is a good reason for that and it has nothing to do with free trade.
And that's not even to mention the benefits of using El Salvador's well-known 'world-class aircraft maintenance'! <-rolling eyes
Every knows that if you want cheap, productive, and the highest-quality jet maintenance--El Salvador is the place to go!! <--sarcasm off
Where are all the 'Free-Trader' comments on this one???
You get what you pay for...
Anybody know if this is phase type maintenance? I also wonder if America West is doing just AirBus work down there?
Regardless, I wonder how the FAA is supposed to monitor work done outside the country?
Why is this an issue?
Honestly, I worked for America West when we outsourced all maintenance to third parties, the unions won and got most of it back. We used to send our planes to Tramco in Seattle and to a company in Winnipeg, Candada, they did crappy work.
As for El Salvador, what you all don't realize is that one of the safest airlines out there Grupo TACA runs out of El Salvador. And, they aren't a bunch of fat assed lazy union goons down there, they do the job to the specifications necessary to fly in the US.
Of course we could all have a bunch of lazy assed union monkeys do the job at 3X the cost and at questionable quality here in the US, or, we could raise fares to reflect the increase in gas prices.....
But, no, the american public would fly a balsa wood airplane if the fare was low enough....
I hope everyone who thinks outsourcing is good for America feels safe flying those airlines.