QF to open Heavy Maintenance Base for 717 in Canberra

[chockchucker]

Anybody know how many 717's are currently in the Q-link fleet?


I ask because, if the number is less than 20, it is a marked change in QF philosophy to onshore heavy maintenance. As their idea is that anything less than 20 aircraft isn't sustainable for a heavy maintenance line.


Interesting development all the same.


.....ahh, the article quotes a fleet number of 18. Yet no 747 or A380 heavy maintenance is viable at a fleet size less than 20. Hmm, interesting.