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Old 18th Feb 2013, 09:57
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Put it in perspective. We all know AVV has a limited future. The knife has told us all already. Potentially AVV will be kept on a limited lifeline doing the remaining 747's and 767 overflow work. The 747's will be a fleet of 9 in the near future and the 767's are done in Brisbane along with the 330's and 737's.

They have already clearly stated that the 787's and 380's won't be done in Australia come hell or high water. The state and federal governments don't care enough about aircraft maintenance to warrant them putting in any funds at all to keep the industry alive unlike the doomed car industry. Qantas even played the Victorian and Queensland governments off against each other at the beginning of 2012 to see how much more they could squeeze out of the state to line their filthy corporate pockets. Victoria has been bled dry and so has Queensland. So they went to the facility that was already servicing aircraft that will be around longer then the 747.

Pessimistic but true.
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