United Airlines outsourcing leads to questions over aircraft safety

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United Airlines outsourcing leads to questions over aircraft safety

The airline said the majority of the engineering work would move to a private consulting firm in Atlanta while some information technology jobs would be transferred to India. Workers at the base said they were told most of the work would take place in India, with some oversight in Atlanta.

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Sad but not surprising. Does anyone know when the MOC lease with City/County of SF expires?

 

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I have no doubt that the long term plan is to finish the outsourcing of maintenance on all levels. As far as the SFMOC goes, IMHO there are numerous obstacles wherein UA just can’t walk away.

One of the main issues ‘may’ be that UA has been in SF for 75 years and all the chemicals that have leached into the ground belong to them. I believe my last HAZMAT class mentioned that the soil is contaminated to about 30’ below ground level throughout the base. I don’t believe that UA can just walk away from the lease without performing a lot of chemical removal.

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