Originally Posted by buttmonkey1
......as the most heat the dom bros have yet felt is in their fancy new gourmet kitchens....
In the previous PIA, for the first time in living memory, we as LAMEs stood united.
Cones shoulder to shoulder to Black-handers, Internationals with Domestics, ignoring the LAME's motto..."Divided we stand and divided we fall".
Again we need to present a united front to the company.
No SYD Vs MEL, No DTB Vs ITB, No Red Team Vs Blue Team, just one body, united and 100% backing the Association.
Does anyone really believe that Management have a workable "contingency plan" in the event we take PIA ?
Their only (realistic) option is to resort to a "Lock-out", and I don't think anyone, on either side of the fence, would consider that a realistic possibility.
Their world fell apart when one base at a time took four-hour holidays and no-one did overtime.
That is, a very small percentage of LAMEs, for a very small percentage of the time, took 33% of one day off.
Purely from a serviceable-domestic-aircraft POV, there are 2 - 3 "A" or "Phase" checks on the 737 Fleet each night.
OK, Give the A/C, what, 2 - 3 day over-run, after that you'll be losing YOUR SERVICEABLE aircraft at the rate of 2 - 3 / day.
It's a given that there'll be the same number of aircraft daily that would be fixable with LAME-power but not with out-of-experience management LAMEs, and the same number of aircraft AGAIN that even with the best LAMEs in the world would be a tow-to-the-hangar proposition, add in a miscellaneous issue or two and after a couple of days they'll be parking around 10 aircraft a day on the fence.
They're not going to lock us out !!
SP....We're behind you !!
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