[Archie Bunker on steroids]

AA is slashing its budget big time post 9-11. How many experienced maintenance folks have been let go? Are the jets spending as much time in maintenance?

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AA is slashing its budget big time post 9-11. How many experienced maintenance folks have been let go? Are the jets spending as much time in maintenance?

28 posted on 11/12/01 10:32 AM Pacific by Archie Bunker on steroids

And how much yiou want to bet they are laying off a lot of the older, higher-paid, higher-skilled American citizen maintainance, baggage handlers, and security folks, while keeping the lower paid less skilled foriegn nationals--many of whom are Middle Easterners.

[Denver Ditdat]

Are the jets spending as much time in maintenance?

Yes. Nothing has changed regarding maintenance scheduling post 9/11. Aircraft are still undergoing normal A and C checks, and unscheduled maintenance is still performed as required.

If it would have been checked, repaired, or inspected prior to 9/11, it is being checked, repaired, and inspected now.

If there are fewer mechanics and inspectors performing those jobs now, it is because there are fewer scheduled flights in the wake of the terrorist attacks.