The RAF is cutting it's engineering staff at the moment on redundancy with the most experienced being targeted. How then does closing St Athan and taking the extra workload to the bases work then? More work done by less men! Hmmmmn maybe not, I believe the way it is being done is to increase flight time between scheduled mainenance by around 40% on most ac types. This apparently will increase availability of ac at the Squadrons! Well maybe, but maybe it'll mean more heavy rectification for Squadron engineers to be done by less personell who are already struggling to keep the other short term broke jets flying. Time will tell but modern ac are highly complex and most of the current ac types ane not too new shall we say. I know which way I think it will go but the lean boys seem to think different!
