I have more sense than to believe your excuse for putting up your prices.
I also have more sense than to restrict my maintenance to just UK based organisations when better value is available elsewhere.
I remember the UK training organisations moaning about how much their prices would have to rise because of JAR-FCL. One particular Balckbushe operator was very up front in saying that JAR-FCL was going to cause price rises in his organisation............which went under in shady circumstances shortly after.
I know that there is noting new in EASA Part M that has not beein known about for a long long time.
There is the class of engineer who listens and learns and prepares for the future then there are those at the back who are constantly playing catch-up.
This is that I use top of the class Maintenance because in the long run it costs less and do not listen to the old..........ah if you get maintenance done in xyz EASA country we won't touch your aircraft back in the UK.
Isn't eradicating that attitude what EASA was all about?
I can pay a UK engineer £60 per hour or I can pay a French one EUR60 for the same product i.e. EASA certified maintenance. That is a big difference when it comes to certain scheduled maintenance.
Regards,
DFC
PS Must remember to moan to my employer about the bookwork I have to do every 6 months just to keep up to speed as a professional pilot. Not very productive being in the classroom is it?