QANTAS and external MRO's have never operated on a level playing field no matter what anyone may say. Untill outsourced maintenance uses the same safety standards that is required in Australia we can never compete economicaly with other operators. While ever we have rediculas retrictions placed on us it will always be the same. Some say it would be a return to the bad old days, but I believe the use of commonsense, which we are no longer allowed to use, would make us alot more competative than we are now.
