Originally Posted by
airsouthwest
MAEL don't have a good name within Flybe, without getting a lawsuit being thrown at me that's all I can say. As for throwing out all Flybe aircraft and keeping third party work, that's not going to happen because the union will never allow it, you'd basically end up with all the staff leaving or going on strike! To be honest if you love MAEL so much go work for them, you don't seem to have much of a clue on what your talking about.
As for having A320's/737's in the FAS Hangar it wouldn't work as the hangars aren't big enough, nor is there the man power, plus the cost of buying addition staging, jacks, training and other specialist tools wouldn't be seen as worth it when the airline has no interest in it themselves, its bad enough trying to get more staging for the Embraer as is!
Given the state we are in the bloody unions should not be dictating what we should and should not be doing , There are to many people stuck in the exeter bubble , If that bubble bursts they will be catapulted into the real world and they won’t like it....And they won’t leave because they have no where to go which is why we can get away with paying them a lot less than the going rate for engineers
We may not like MAEL but they are saving us a lot of money
We could dump them but we won’t for that very good reason , We cannot afford not to have them on board and that’s the facts of the matter