Virgin Australia has told JHAS that they do not need any heavy maintenance from them.
So JHAS is closing the heavy maintenance team in the hangar, its about 40 person crew right now.
So JHAS is laying off 40 guys.
The layoffs will be taken from the two pernament line nightshift crews and the heavy crew.
So the guys on the pernament line nights see this as JHAS protecting the heavy maintenance guys, by laying off some of the pernament line night guys.
Now this has yet again been another kick in the guts for the boys/girls on nights,as the heavy maintenance day crew works nice and slow, refuses to work nights and now they are being disbanded, so the layoffs will be taken from the line nightshift crews. Nice one JHAS.
Virgin Australia, Jetstar and Tiger all want to pay as close to zero for maintenance but they all demand the Rolls Royce treatment at the Hyundai price. They want AOG support and hangar space at the drop of a hat, and get all bent out of shape when there is no maintenance guys available to fix their broken ,lightening strike riddled aircraft. They deliver their aircraft at midnight, demand an 140hour check to be done, and schedule an 0600 hr departure, then they get all bent out of shape when we ask to defer tasks that cannot be done. Dont forget to add the constant issue of no parts being ordered or even just recently, the completely wrong parts being issued by the customer. And thats JHAS fault according to the customer.
So Virgin Australia, Jetstar and Tiger all want their costs to be at zero or less, so maintenance providers have to reduce and reduce, which is "layoff the workers who earn you the money" way of thinking.
So here at JHAS, there are layoffs every 6 months now. So xmas 2013 is the next one, then July 2014 and by Xmas 2014 there should only be 5 or 6 maintenance guys left to layoff, but I'm sure the car park will be chocka-block during the day shift.