There are other maintenance providrs out ther who can provide the same if not better service at a fraction of the cost...
Sounds very familiar. Company stooge perhaps?
I have lost count of how many managers have come through our section on roadshows, etc, saying the same thing. Usually they have no experience whatsover on aircraft maint or ever worked in heavy maint. They are just trying to justify cost cutting.
Any engineer that worked in Sydney heavy, especially when we did some customer contracts on Potomac and yank aircraft, will tell you that our aircraft were top notch. They rightfully can boast this through experience, not perception. Our experience, workpractices and LAME numbers played a big part in this. Other maint providers out there, that you boast about, sometimes have 1 LAME running between 3 different aircraft in the same hangar.
So our immaculate safety record when Sydney heavy existed was coincidental, was it? I think not.