Failure to recognize the context of this post validates a fundamental concern that some engineers have no understanding at all about the significance of maintenance cost per operating hour.
Shake the head a bit guys, look up and lift yourselves out of your burrow, there is much more to an airline than just in-house heavy maintenance.
MP.
Which means in "Management speak" cut the costs = more productivity bonus.
So it now appears that through the last 30 or so years that I have spent in aviation, so called management have put less and less into engineering training (the same scenario applies also to nursing), where "management" (LIL) always relied on getting trained people from overseas when required, or totally disregarding trade training as an unnecessary cost, or viewing people that got their hands dirty with the utmost contempt, and thinking that they must be smarter as they don't get their hands dirty, putting nothing back into training, no continuation training.
So us LAMEs get more and more load.......who get the bonuses??????
So? what you didn't guess?
Of course costs have to be with in the operational perspectives of running a business, but you can not arbitrarily just stop wage increases for certain departments, then just give management a huge pay rise!(or bonus)
Who is out there late at night trying to get the aircraft serviceable to meet the morning schedule? Is it you MP.????