Overseas MRO'S

[chris perry]

Here is an old link supporting the inferior and hiding shotty work...You be the Judge.... If it's so good why won't they release their findings? http://www.theage.com.au/national/foreign-servicing-of-jets-kept-secret-20080720-3i9a.html

 

[PhatSappy]

Here is an old link supporting the inferior and hiding shotty work...You be the Judge.... If it's so good why won't they release their findings? http://www.theage.com.au/national/foreign-servicing-of-jets-kept-secret-20080720-3i9a.html

And when will TWU start making a stink about foreign outsourcing? Never mind, I've been living with the answer for 27 years.

 

[Buck]

And when will TWU start making a stink about foreign outsourcing? Never mind, I've been living with the answer for 27 years.

Letters have been written. Maybe contacting your local would help.........?


Oversight of Aircraft Repairs To the Editor:

Re “Forcing the F.A.A. to Fly Blind” (Op-Ed, April 10):

William J. McGee is right: Federal Aviation Administration inspectors can no longer exercise effective oversight of aircraft repair, which has been increasingly outsourced to shops in foreign countries.

American Airlines is the only major United States carrier that still maintains almost all of its fleet in its own United States-based facilities.

Members of the Transport Workers Union who repair aircraft at American are subject to background checks, professional certification and routine drug and alcohol tests as well as regular F.A.A. oversight of their work. The public should expect no less of workers engaged in critical repair work on planes that fly hundreds of millions of passengers a year.

But there are no comparable requirements for personnel in overseas repair shops. The sad truth is, that’s one of the reasons most of the other major airlines are locating their maintenance work to other countries. They want to avoid the rigors of F.A.A. inspection and high standards of security.

Since the airlines are unwilling to fix this problem, Congress should fix it for them. The current F.A.A. authorization bill, now moving through Congress, must include language calling for routine, unannounced inspections of any aircraft repair shop that works on planes operated by United States carriers — no matter where in the world those shops are located. There are no tow trucks at 30,000 feet.

 JAMES C. LITTLE
Washington, April 12, 2011

The writer is international president of the Transport Workers Union of America.


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