hannibal lector

What a sad day it is. All contratcs cancelled. Line Maint no more. Looks like the BLUE team wins again

SeldomFixit

And you'll never get them back, sadly. Eric the Red, an Engineering Director who actually knew what Engineering was, would roll in his grave.
Saint Steven will very shortly preside over a very odd situation. A union full of members without jobs. This isn't playing the man, it's playing the ball and that ball is very soon to be in touch.

Chocks Away

MMMmm.
Sad to see Lufthansa tech gain the work but for them to gain it, QF stipulated they had to buy into the maintenance company, for it to be considered given to an Australian mob! (ATWonline.com for more)

The Black Panther

Signs of a desperate management.
From a business viewpoint that is probably a few percentage points in revenue Darth has kissed goodbye too. The work still needs to be done by some labour but not Qantas labour. Interesting to see the correction on Monday's share price. I would be buying put options for my dollars.

Who will supply labour?
Well someone needs to do the work and either sunset QF engineers pull the pin and set up small contract labour $2 companies or the labour lines up with JH or AMSA. Someone will be interested in making a profits from basic labour contracts just not Darth.

The problem for Qantas is now Darth had x work with y labour units, he now has x-z work with y labour units. Units which will be inefficient and somewhat costly for industrial reasons let alone the simple math.

It's all very well having available labour but three lames holding a spanner isn't faster than one (especially if they are all taking 5, following PPM, preparing 500's, untilising SAFE, lean sigma aware, using partfart, carrying out safety obs, .... .... .... ....

UPPERLOBE

Eric Kydd, he was QF's first apprentice and ended up Engineering Manager in the day's before they were called directors. He was a man who did not tolerate fools and had the vocabulary to back himself against any wharfie, would love to hear what he would think of the current management crop. LOL.

Syd eng

Where on ATW online?
can't find it

division1

This downsizing of engineering and maintenance has been going
on since D.C. came on the scene, with M.H. doing his dirtywork.
Since these assclowns touched the finely tuned E&M controls,
they have done nothing but bugger it up. changing the line maint
guys umbrella to aircraft customer services was very telling, looking
back they have done nothing but pi$$ their customer airlines off and
shed our maint contracts which the line maint lames worked so hard
over so many years to develop.
If these latest rumours are indeed true, i hope the current custodians
of the Qantas maintenance flag rot in hell.

UPPERLOBE

Starting "QE" was more telling.