eolesen
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- Jul 23, 2003
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If you noticed he never answered the question as far as if he uses Costa Rican or Mexican rates of pay for determining how he sets his own pay.
Actually, Bob, I did answer that. Perhaps you just couldn't figure out the answer. I have no choice but to consider the cost of off-shoring when I set pricing levels for my IT products and services.
Nor did he consider the costs of the shoddy workmanship being put out by these low paid facilities. He never worked on a plane that came out of a low cost overhaul. I have. Typically they would limp back to the line out of those chop shops and we would spend weeks clearing up the items that weren't there when it went into OH. They come out worse than they went in except they have a new paint job(right over the corrosion). At AA we never see that, they come out like new.
Again, you don't read very well.... Not all customers go with the lowest bidder. I see that every time I win business away from the off-shoring firms. And that's why Allegiant has stayed with AMR, but quite frankly, they're the exception. They're making money, and can afford to. The rest of the industry is pulling up the seat cushions looking for the spare change.
And again, you seem to have a xenophobic view that only licensed AMT's working in the US for a US airline (and carrying a union card?) are capable of providing quality work.
And that's simply not the case. There are unionized US airline mechanics who do crappy work (e.g. scabs in MSP & DTW?), and the work by unlicensed technicians maintaining the US military fleet probably matches (if not exceeds) the quality coming out of TUL...