Maybe the meaning is about the personnel,I have been in Maintenance for 28 years and it appears to me to cut down maintenance costing it is in reality a cut in Manpower,recently I have been involved in costing some checks and I can tell you that it costs me more per hour to service my car than it does for a widebody aircraft,we have far to many maintenance outfits chasing to few checks,the lowest rate for Manpower I have come across is $81.5 per hour and this was in a highly respected global maintenance provider who after taking their fees there is precious little left for the people.As for FLS I feel I can comment on them,I know for SURE that they pulled out of a bidding war with a now known South coast maintenance provider as they could not compete on the low rates that Their competitor was offering.This now leads to another problem in that the industry used to be well paid but now We are having great difficulty in recruiting young People in as quiete frankly for the work we are expected to do in all weathers treated like s$it and given zero recognition it is just not worth it,I personally left the "hands on" side of maintenance several years ago and am now involved in engineering and technical services,I studied and worked for years to get to where I did get(licensed certifying staff B747)but more or less left it overnight to be office based(some who know me might say that was a good thing!)and to be perfectly honest I do not miss the "line"in the slightest.
matkat