Its like a rich man building a mansion, finding his budget cut he shrimps and saves on foundation and structure and spends his money on a high quality finish all gloss and shine
and hes happy and spends the money he saved on a holiday
six months later the tiles on the floor crack,he calls the tiller who tells him it not his fault the foundation has moved and the whole house is unsound
the easiest maintenance to outsource is heavy maintenance due to its high manhours you can save a lot of money.but if your own people are not doing the checks are they done well, if the person doing the check will never see the aircraft again will he care if its not perfect.
my point is we in line have to wear the mistakes of heavy so I believe it should be done inhouse, we never had all these incidences when 245 was open. Losing the 245 skillbase was a tragity for qantas engineering and all new engineers are poorer for not having passed through there