Instead of contracting OUT maintenance work, AA should be looking at the cash potential of contracting IN maintenance work from other carriers. It would it make it possible to keep it's own people steadily employed and extremely busy among other things. It would also enable them to eventually build world-class maintenance facilities at the expense of their contractees.[BR][BR]When you contract OUT, you get what you pay for. Fort Lauderdale airport is a prime example. There is a HUGE improvement in the level of service and professionalism since AA took the airport back from the absolutely lousy outsource contractors they used for so long. When you outsource, you are contracting away your business to people who don't give a rat's ass about your customers, because they don't work for you directly. I hate that I have to use MIA so much, but not necessarily because of the carriers, I know that Dade County is like having to deal with the cuban mafia to get anything done, but the carriers, namely AA since they are the largest, are just as guilty for continually taking it up the backside from Dade and not doing anything about it.[BR][BR]Outsourcing is, and always has been, a huge mistake.