fordran
as a you may have guessed i am a SYD H/M worker, what you say is correct we do need the support, to many times over the years QF has been eroding away different area of the Maintenance area within Qantas, not only dividing up the unions but also outsourceing the various different areas within engineering.
here is some more food to feed on........food for thought you could say.
The workshops have been moved out to Bankstown making it harder to get the parts back in time to complete the checks (lack of support), but when trying to get in the work such as the re-configs ie:A330-300 and the B767 we proved that we could not only do this work beside the hurdles that were put up in our way, but also pull a profit in SYD H/M the hardest part here was the manpower in the workshops to be able to complete the tasks.
It should be also noted that SYD H/M maint had the complete B767 fleet to be reconfiged in H191 which would have supported the workforce that we had after line 2 closed down and had moved to Brissy and by this stage the maintenance and standards group would have been up and running and bringing in work for Heavy.
now all we have is an empty hangar with seat boxes in it and to workshop planners and co-ordinators in the old planning crib so it can't be used for Heavy Maint.
it was sugested but a person i know to the management that maybe we should do more of this work and also bring in other operators aircraft for reconfig work so we could see what the other arlines aircraft were like so that when quoting for work we had a better idea of what work was invovled and turn the so called loss into a profit........ still waiting to see the outcome.
I heard while carrying out the reconfigs, that before the aircraft came in, it was asked at a meeting with workshop management if the workshop could support the job the answer was no but when pushed it was able to get done, the success of the project came down largely to the hard work of these areas and the experiance of the guys working on the aircraft.
It should be also noted that there is a back log of work within the workshops but when asked if they could have more worker the answers have been "NO" from the management, due to the fact that there is no enough work to keep them empolyed. At this point it should be noted that the MRO that have taken the workshop work within Australia have expanded there Business 10 fold and still expanding. Maybe QF should start looking a Engineering as a loss but as an asset, one that can make money ....after all we have alredy proved this.
sorry guys if this is alittle long winded but it shows alittle more about what has been happening in the back ground .... but it makes you think