I feel that Qantas Engineering Management and those above perceive those on the hangar floor with maintenance skills as a necessary evil which drives down their profits, and therefore look on those people with utter contempt.
In my humble opinion, they thought they could successfully de-skill Qantas Engineering and find slots for their aircraft O/S.
This of course backfired, due to a lack of experience in aviation planning, we all know that new aircraft never meet their target delivery date, so you have to keep maintaining your old crates.
Then there's training for the new aircraft. When is that all going to happen?
There's my two cents worth....................
P.S. One of the Planning Managers from Qantas came down to Avalon and gave a presentation for their Exell Award, he told us that he received an e-mail from "Geoff" to say how well we had done, presented a couple of LED booklamps and we all got an apple, apiece of mudcake and, wait for it, a biscuit in it's own special little box. If that ain't contempt......What is?
Last edited by K9P; 30th Oct 2007 at 00:52.