Originally Posted by clipped
Without degrading the attributes of your organisation Romulus.
Please look at it from the perspective of a QE employee. QE has the facilities, capability, personnel etc etc to service the current and future fleet (or it certainly did a couple of years ago). Those capabilities have diminished simply because management want to rein in their legacy workforce.
So please allow us to be a little skeptical of this circus.
Fair enough.
Bear in mind that QF Eng are playing in an entirely new space against companies (not just us) who view enginering as an honourable profession and make it their entire living.
We can build nuclear reactors, we can build sturctures that do amazing things. Now we have bought a whole lot of aviation engineering expertise. Marry the two together and QF Eng have a strong competitor on their own turf for the first time.
there is no question QF Eng is a very good aviation engineering organisation - question is can they deliver the commercial requirements of the modern day airline?
And no, this does not allow a compromise on safety.