If you have a 727 or 737 or any other jet with run-out engines beyond TBO, don't spend a dime to overhaul them! Just remove them, crate them up and ship them to Turkmanistan, where there is a rebuild/overhaul station doing business. They solvent wash, clean up, and retag the engine in the same condition it arrived in as now being airworthy. It gets shipped back stateside, installed, and logged in the planes books as zero time engines.
It's quite a lucrative business. Rather hard on the mechanics who have to do all this because it's still IAW FAA rules. If that repair facility in Turkmanistan has been certificated, it's just peachy.
Now if you're Connie Culletta or United Airlines, what do you think they do to cut expenses yet comply with FAA rules?
Wonderful. You know, until we stop bailing out the airlines, we'll never get fiscally responsible people into positions of power in the major airlines. People who cut engine maintenance to feed their multi-million dollar bonuses are, by no means, fiscally responsible. Perhaps when airplanes start falling from the skies people will wake up to things like this.