Originally Posted by
LeadSled
Folks,
In another salute to the desirability of operations under the gentle and tender loving care of CASA, Scott McMillan has announced that all Alliance Airlines heavy maintenance will move to Austria.
See: Flight International 29/03-4/04, page 18, a full page article on Alliance.
This is a done deal, not a proposal, indeed some F-100 have already been to the Austrian Airlines facility involved.
I wonder how CASA will spin this as just taking advantage of the third world's low wage rates??
Tootle pip!!
think it's Bratislava not Austria. Last time I drove from Bratislava to Vienna(Austrian HQ) it took just over 30 mins.
How often do Alliance send aircraft to BTS for maintenance ?
Why doesn't Alliance offer cheap one way charter flights to BTS ?
Yes of course, the flights would stop somewhere for pilot rest & passengers would have to find some accommodation somewhere.
Could call it Backpacker xpress(except not express, but why ruin a good story).
As seemingly everyone in OZ is broke or living on credit cards(worse than broke) some might take up such an offer.
Also, just heard that some New Zealand airline is going to be flying domestically in Australia. Who could that be ? FlyKiwi ? Guess there's plenty of scope for a low cost Saab 340 operation here.