Newport
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Maybe a former HM Mgr KC is the face of Newport not Forstaff
Today 21:12
71trident, he was involved with the training and reactivation of the group they got late last year. It would seem that after his consultancy with State Rail he was lured in to organise as many LAMEs' as possible, not two years after kneecapping SYD Heavy Maintenance.
Numbskull, you are quite correct in your inference, and it would suggest to me that probably mid way through last week, David Cox has realised "I aint got no LAMEs' in reserve!!!!"
I find it quite amusing the reference in the print media to this "group from Malaysia" that have been organised to save Qantas Engineering and keep the network in the air. There is at best 28 blokes, most washed up has-beens and malcontents. This is hardly the Patricks stoush re visited. There is not enough trained engineers.