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Where will SERCO get its cheap work force from when there will be no trained technicians with a pension to recruit. The sums won't add up when they have to spend some of the money they receive for their contracts on training, and paying a decent wage!
Haltonapp
Nail, Head
I recall pointing this out from a Flight Safety perspective in 1992, and that it wouldn't show up for 20 years until drawdown flattened out, but then the Service would be totally f#cked.
It's a bit like building a pretty house on that really cheap land next to the volcano......
One of my last jobs in `glider` command was to audit civilian maintenance contracts. I recall in the out brief with the civilian "OC Eng Wg low cost option" at a Northern training establishment, saying pretty much the same as the comments above... Unsurprisingly the response was totally underwhelming.
The laws of diminishing returns and the dangers of short term expediency were being ignored even then... I believe the contractor now builds trains.....