Originally Posted by
WHBM
Well I guess that's one maintenance organisation Air Astana won't be using again. I wonder why they positioned the aircraft all the way from Almaty to Portugal and back for the check. Selected by the beancounters as being the low bidder.
This maintenance organisation is well known for its low prices. Some of the standards of post maintenance on aircraft being collected to ferry home has been dreadful. I have personal experience of this!
The engineers are reportedly to be on a very below average wage.