Qantas to reduce heavy maintenance labour by 60%
Qantas say they are not off shoring, howevever, as the old aircraft retire (747, 767) the new aircraft they buy are maintained overseas. This is off shoring by stealth, and Australian jobs will go as the plan for closure of 1 or maybe 2 heavy maintenance bases before the end of the decade comes to fruition. Hundreds of Aussies will be out of work.
The pride and excellence of Qantas engineering is compromised by the view that it is not cost effective to carry out wide body heavy maintenance in Australia.
What will be the cost for this short term gain? To Australia and to Qantas?
Will passengers be happy to know that the aircraft they fly internationally on are not maintained in house?
I wonder?