It may interest you to know that the A319 at MAN is being "worked" by a couple of management grade engineering staff and one avionics technician.
They have been on shift for well over 24 hours!
Now if this isn't an incident waiting to happen................
As for sabotageing BA's attempts at profitability, does it make sense to invest hundreds of thousands of pounds training engineers and then allow them to sit at home on full pay whilst at the same time bringing other engineers from 200 miles away on overtime, lodged in expensive hotels, and dragging a job out for a bit more gobble because they haven't worked the type for years?
Also close down a hangar and then not 4 months later have to hire FLS' hangar to rescue a casualty a/c?
The same thing happened a week ago except thet they were sent up to MAN by taxi after working 3/4 of a 12 hr night shift and then allowed to continue working an ETOPS a/c for a for a further 14 hrs!!!!!
Does the CAA read this site? Do the shareholders? Do they care?
Last edited by HOVIS; 1st August 2002 at 17:18.