"Cut back Tech Services? Not a problem!"
"Reduce the numbers in Maintenance Watch and move them where they can't be consulted face to face? No worries!"
"Only 20 LAMEs trained on the A380? Too easy!"
"Move the whole engineering management team to The Bunker? We'll still be relevant, functional and accountable! Honest!"
"Ignore what the pesky LAMEs have been telling us for the last three years? Not an MBA among them! What would they f**kin know - oops I mean Would we do a thing like that?"
Just in case anyone missed it:
The three particular issues are that of (1) organisational functionality in the engineering and maintenance operation; and we believe that the organisation needs to thoroughly align accountability and responsibility to approve the authority itself, and control of, the engineering and maintenance program. So we're largely talking about management structure of engineering.
And at the moment, we believe that there are some potential areas where things might slip through the gaps, and they need to tighten up, as I said, the split of accountability and responsibility.
Ouch!