Maintenance JFK?

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Does aa ever plan on opening up some maintenance position anytime this century? just curious...

 

[777 fixer]

Does aa ever plan on opening up some maintenance position anytime this century? just curious...

With the number of AMT's still on the street it will quite sometime before that happens.

 

[TIME FOR CHANGE]

Does aa ever plan on opening up some maintenance position anytime this century? just curious...

If you are just starting in this profession get a job with UPS or take the time go back to school and do something else for a living. An AMT with a comercial carrier flying people from A to B is a dead end job.
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[A/C FIXER]

Does aa ever plan on opening up some maintenance position anytime this century? just curious...

Do yourself a favor, run, run away very fast. You can make more fixing cars. I've been with AA for 22yrs and I can state that when I first started it was a fun job, I actually enjoyed what I was doing, now I dread going thru the turnstiles everyday, now its just a job.If I didn't have so much time invested towards retirement, or at an age where other employers would say well we really want someone whos going to stay for the long haul not a couple years and leave, I'd be gone in a heartbeat/or a New York Minute-they're only 15 seconds long/. There used to be a time where I said if I had won a large amount of cash in a lotto I'd still keep my job just to stay busy, now NFW, I'd come in give my tool box keys to the Svpr. and say give my tools away, I just Retired, but thats just me.
But on the other hand, if you have dreams, by all means follow them, just remember that the Airline business is a cyclical business, lots of ups and downs, and since 9/11 way too much security on the people who work on the aircraft/pilots,F/As,AMTs,FSCs/ these are the people who have gone thru background checks had fingerprints taken etc. but they are the ones who get scrutinized the most, go figure.
Now add the Greed factor of upper management and you'll see why very few people want in the airline business anymore. I suspect that within 20 years there will be such a shortage of AMTs the industry will be screaming for help, but given they way employees are treated we will see everything farmed out to overseas operations, from maintenance to loading to pilots, and you can see just by reading the papers and trade magazines that this has already started. But this is my take on the industry.

 

[Wretched Wrench]

I suspect that within 20 years there will be such a shortage of AMTs the industry will be screaming for help,

Nah. There is plenty of cheap unskilled labor out there. More all the time. AA will hire them at bottom dollar and train them and license them. There will be a few bilingual tech crew chiefs there to tell them what to do. Everything will be fine.

 

[Bob Owens]

But on the other hand, if you have dreams, by all means follow them, just remember that the Airline business is a cyclical business, lots of ups and downs,

A lot more downs than ups. See the graph on the traed "Mechanics py vs CPI".

http://www.usaviation.com/forums/index.php...l=mechanics+pay

 

[Bagbelt]

That has been happening for a long time in other trades. The airport is run by a semi-public authority which can claim the ramp as private property. Since it is private property who needs to know if the guy working on high voltage or whatever isn't a wheelchair attendant. Nothing against wheelchair attendants.