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So, can this be achieved?

American Airlines Alliance Maintenance Base Sets $400 Million Goal By End of 2008

Thursday May 11, 4:10 pm ET

FORT WORTH, Texas, May 11 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- A team of management and Transport Workers Union (TWU) Local 567 employees at the American Airlines Alliance Maintenance Base, including the engine repair facility TAESL, has set a "breakthrough goal" to obtain $400 million in value creation for the airline by the end of 2008.

About 120 union members and managers, led by David Campbell, Vice President of AFW, and Gary Peterson, President of TWU Local 567, met for two days in an off-site meeting, dubbed the Visioning Conference, to set the goal, which is to create a partnership to empower all employees to make Alliance a world class maintenance facility.

The Alliance base employs about 2,000 people, including about 1,400 TWU aircraft and facility mechanics, crew chiefs, stock clerks and inspectors, and overhauls American's widebody fleets of Boeing 767s and Boeing 777s. TAESL, a joint venture between American Airlines and Rolls-Royce, is the North American overhaul facility for the RB211 and Trent engines.

"A breakthrough goal is critical to the future of AFW and to the people who work here," Campbell said. "Focusing on a breakthrough goal will challenge our thinking -- because it isn't possible using our current methods and practices. A breakthrough goal has the ability to disrupt our patterns and knock us out of the box. But, if we believe it is possible, that gives us the ability to reinvent the way we do our work."

Peterson said, "The opportunity for success at AFW is based on what we choose to do. We each have to take responsibility for developing solutions instead of dwelling on problems. We need to focus on our future and not our past."

To realize this goal, work teams were formed to focus on revenue generation and third-party work, leadership, cultural change and morale, productive increases through process improvements, accountability and employee involvement.

Pat Stewart, Vice President - TAESL, said, "We have proven that we collectively can accomplish what we set out to do. The Continuous Improvement process involves mechanics and others designing their own work space and developing the processes to do their work more efficiently. Those are proven concepts here at TAESL and elsewhere in the maintenance organization."

Pete Sirucek, Managing Director - Aircraft Maintenance, AFW, said, "We have a great work force here at Alliance and I am confident that we can achieve our breakthrough goal. We have gotten very positive feedback from other airlines that have sent us their aircraft to overhaul and repair."

Current base initiatives that will help AFW reach the breakthrough goal include the development of High Performance Teams, the Continuous Improvement program, the Aircraft Maintenance Futures Team that identifies ways to maximize facility and manpower capacity in order to bring in more third-party work, the Joint Leadership Team and the Joint Communications Team.
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FWAAA said:
So, can this be achieved?
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With a well paid motivated workforce it could, but AA wants everything for free.

AA used to do all sorts of contract maintenance, I dont know why they are pretending that this is a new idea. Crandall got rid of all the work in the 80s because they could not attract enough mechanics to take care of their own rapidly expanding fleet nevermind do other work.
 
Bob Owens said:
With a well paid motivated workforce it could, but AA wants everything for free.

AA used to do all sorts of contract maintenance, I dont know why they are pretending that this is a new idea. Crandall got rid of all the work in the 80s because they could not attract enough mechanics to take care of their own rapidly expanding fleet nevermind do other work.
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Sounds like AA is positioning itself to be able to spin off its maintenance unit.
 
AMFAMAN said:
Position...we're already there.

http://www.mroaa.com/
I do wonder what the breakthrough goal is for management, fleet service, pilots, F/A's, etc., etc., etc. Why are the continous concessions only for maintenance?
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How exactly is adding 3rd party maintenance a concession? They are trying to create revenue not cut your pay.

Maintenance is different, because the huge fixed costs associated with performing maintenance allows AA to compete with low cost providers. The hangers, tools, computer systems, medical benefits are all set. AA just has to pay the hourly rate. Its difficult to do third party flying, and AA already does some, though very little, 3rd party ground handling and management activities.
 
Oneflyer said:
How exactly is adding 3rd party maintenance a concession? They are trying to create revenue not cut your pay.
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It's not the third party work that's a concession, it's doing the third party work and AA's work with less people then you had for just AA's work. Now that's a concession that we haven't got credit for in a dollar amount. We gave them some $350 million a year in concessions, now we will give a combined $1 billion+ in overhaul in revenue. Why didn't we just give them $350 million a year in third party contract profits and working lean, not both.
 
Oneflyer said:
How exactly is adding 3rd party maintenance a concession? They are trying to create revenue not cut your pay.

Maintenance is different, because the huge fixed costs associated with performing maintenance allows AA to compete with low cost providers. The hangers, tools, computer systems, medical benefits are all set. AA just has to pay the hourly rate. Its difficult to do third party flying, and AA already does some, though very little, 3rd party ground handling and management activities.
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More work for the same pay. The company is trying to squeeze in the work without OT, increasing our workload without additional hours or jobs created. Thats how its a concession. Otherwise known as a speed up.

A lot of the mechanics work on those carriers as a side job, now they will have to work these aircraft at AA, they will lose their hours there and gain nothing at AA.
 
AMFAMAN said:
It's not the third party work that's a concession, it's doing the third party work and AA's work with less people then you had for just AA's work. Now that's a concession that we haven't got credit for in a dollar amount. We gave them some $350 million a year in concessions, now we will give a combined $1 billion+ in overhaul in revenue. Why didn't we just give them $350 million a year in third party contract profits and working lean, not both.
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AMFAMAN, if your job is anything at all like mine you have plenty of time to do other things. Is AA really imposing concessions on you guys with more work or simply seeing a lot of wasted labor time floating around out there and trying to take advantage of it?

JS said:
Productivity improvement -- how awful! :rolleyes:
Get back to work and quit bitching!
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:lol: :lol: :lol: Now that is funny. :up:
 
AMFAMAN said:
Position...we're already there.

http://www.mroaa.com/
I do wonder what the breakthrough goal is for management, fleet service, pilots, F/A's, etc., etc., etc. Why are the continous concessions only for maintenance?
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So true. At the recent presidents conference, when the subject turned to cost cutting, everthing was about maintenance; the TUL pulse line, third party mx, layoffs, etc. Maintence people are carrying this airline now. Everyone else is sitting on their duffs..
 
lpbrian said:
So true. At the recent presidents conference, when the subject turned to cost cutting, everthing was about maintenance; the TUL pulse line, third party mx, layoffs, etc. Maintence people are carrying this airline now. Everyone else is sitting on their duffs..
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Maybe middle level management is sitting on their duffs but I can assure you that agents, F/As, and rampers are not.
 
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