Losing the 245 skillbase was a tragity for qantas engineering and all new engineers are poorer for not having passed through there
Unfortunately when you have "managers" that are not engineers and have no concept of AA and CASA regs, or any aircraft engineering background/experience, mistakes like these will continue to be made with very little appreciation or care of the longer term impact.
The same can be said for the few "engineers", (sorry if I have offended anyone), left in management that obviously have their own best interests at heart when making some of the most rediculous decisions that they have made of late. What a massive step backwards.
The EGM of Qantas engineering constantly talks down Qantas engineering as being on par with any other maint organisation in the world. What experience does he have to back up his claims! None! What arrogance and ignorance. He obviously never saw some of the 3rd parties that we had in H245 for "D" checks when we used to do customer work. The difference in condition between our aircraft and theirs was like chalk and cheese. Does he think our safe reputation is by co-incidence?
What we lost in experience is now gone for good.