Legacy Schmegacy
At the moment in SYD there is one manager with any operational experience ( working on aircraft) and rumour has it he is on thin ice
To compensate for all these new managers cloned from the great GM we now have. Even delay reports have to be dumbed down for them to understand. The only notable aspect of this new style of management is that they are more missive and yell more than their predecessors. What a team !!
This mobs predecessors like them or not new what was required to maintain aircraft but unfortunately lacked the vision to show true costs versus value of the type of maintenance provided by QF engineering to senior management.
A perfect example of this is H245 R.I.P.
Now the current characters look at what an “A” check costs from a MRO and asks why we don’t do the same for same money or less. In reality there is no such comparison as one fee is for the bare minimum Vs the QF way.
Then we are asked why we do more than the bare minimum ???? This is the point most experience engineers glaze over, run out of breath and give up arguing with managers whom know everything because they have read about airline models in completely different geographical positions with no where near the aircraft utilization QF does. i.e. No spare aircraft in reserve for a maintenance delay…..
The next threat is to take the work away from us Legacy” characters !!!
To think that the aircraft maintenance, "A" checks and below can be done anywhere else other than hub cities is misguided short sighted and been tried before by QF and many others.
So what options does this leave the dream team.
Precinct review will probably come up with the following genius
Look at License coverage across SYD at base and both terminals and place said license coverage where it is needed for maintenance rather than transits.
Bring into effect "no-man" turnarounds on 737-NG to free up more manpower.
Make special crews to work different aircraft types?
Being tried now, it works well, the guys do a good job but few would say it is a leap forward in efficiency as the guys left to maintain the rest of the aged International fleet are now disproportionately lower number than the dedicated A330 crews in per head per aircraft.
The Dream team are under the hammer to make things cheaper without effecting reliability. I can’t see many areas to save this cash without an undesirable by product of parked aircraft in SYD and around the world. If they push one way there is an easy way to push back on an individual basis.
Time will tell
End of rant