Qantas Airways chief executive Alan Joyce says the company's maintenance workload will fall by 60 per cent in the period ahead as new aircraft enter the fleet and older ones leave.
As such, the airline group had no need for its multiple heavy maintenance sites in Australia.
'Three heavy maintenance bases is not viable,' Mr Joyce told shareholders at Qantas' annual general meeting in Canberra on Friday.
'Having people do maintenance on aircraft that doesn't need maintenance - and no other airline in the world does that - is not viable.
'We need to ensure that it is sufficiently viable and there for the long term.'
Bad press report when your customer read that.so why Singapore and Cathay pacific or emirates reduce engineers if maintenance is not required