DL and AA have been the last to do that to a large degree, although AA has cut back some. It's relatively common for a carrier which has maintenance at an airport to provide on-call maintenance to other carriers serving that airport which don't have their own maintenance, usually for a fee or per hour per mechanic charge. For example, AS serves DCA with three flights/day so probably doesn't have it's own maintenance personnel in DCA, so they would get on-call maintenance from someone else, probably another carrier serving DCA that does have maintenance personnel there. I wouldn't be surprised if US didn't provide on-call maintenance to at least some other carriers at CLT/PHL/PHX.Do the big carriers do maintenance for other airlines? If so, did US ever entertain that idea?.....
DL and AA have been the last to do that to a large degree, although AA has cut back some. It's relatively common for a carrier which has maintenance at an airport to provide on-call maintenance to other carriers serving that airport which don't have their own maintenance, usually for a fee or per hour per mechanic charge. For example, AS serves DCA with three flights/day so probably doesn't have it's own maintenance personnel in DCA, so they would get on-call maintenance from someone else, probably another carrier serving DCA that does have maintenance personnel there. I wouldn't be surprised if US didn't provide on-call maintenance to at least some other carriers at CLT/PHL/PHX.
Jim
US does all the A, B, C and Q(overhaul check) on all the B737 family aircraft, as well as the A, B, C and S(overhaul) checks on the A320 family aircraft.
Also some of the 757 HMV are done in-house, all the A330 annual HMV and S-Checks are farmed out.
The last IAM M&R CBA, maintains that 50% of maintenance must be done in-house and 50% can be farmed out.
Funny thing about the in-house work....I have watched the scheduled MTC for CLT and PIT for a long long time. Pit with only 5 overnighters and say 20 flights a day with a work force that averages over 50 years old gets more work than CLT. Down the road that may change but as of now I can't figure it out. Pit is very understaffed and what are they doing with all the people in CLT...believe it or not folks Pit is dying a slow death but right now the company must be getting one heck of a deal out of this place.
When the 737 are gone it will leave 3 open bays for the " S " checks to move to CLT. Then PIT will close.
A lot of work done in CLT look at the out of service screen daily. CLT has its share of over 50 Weekly multiple engine changes.
I thought it was announced Clt was to start doing the HMV's on the 330's again?