Todays curious email from the ivory tower in Mascot spells it all out as clear as mud.
Will be most interested to see how prepared Jetstar management are for A checks and other assorted 'base maintenance' type work.
From late October Jetstar, will expand its A330 Line Maintenance engineering capabilities. As a result, Jetstar have decided not to renew their Service Level Agreement with Qantas Engineering for A330 Line Maintenance in Sydney, Melbourne and Cairns.
This means that from late October 2010 Jetstar will self-handle Line and Base maintenance in all Australian ports where they operate. We’ll continue providing Heavy Maintenance in Brisbane and supplying all other services to Jetstar as normal.
This decision isn’t related to the service and support we’ve provided. Jetstar’s decision supports their strategy of developing and building in house Line Maintenance capability.
We will continue to manage our business with the current establishment of staff including the provision of additional leave lines. The doubling of our A380 fleet to 12 by mid 2011 will allow us to increase support for A380 Line Maintenance.
Our usual professional quality service will be provided to Jetstar, in the same way as we do for our other clients and, where possible, will help with any requests for equipment, tooling or other support.
Again, all this for aircraft that are to be returned to the QF fleet in a couple of years anyway?
Me thinks there's just a little more to it than that......Interesting times ahead.