Qantas Quietly Books A 747 For Heavy Maintenance In Singapore

[Bumpfoh]

Turbo

Quite right. I would not for a moment suggest any form of industrial action.

Merely suggesting LAME's should vote with their own individual feet on a moral conscience vote.

[Turbo 5B]

HearHear! Well said.

[HotDog]

Originally Posted by Bumpfoh

And then lets see what type of garbage job we get back, line and sevicing should have a field day!
All such rectification work should be well documented and recorded independently with a resultant case file compiled, the company may not care but I'm sure/hope CASA would.

Isn't it strange though, hundreds of overseas aircraft land and take off every week in Australia; the majority of which have been serviced and maintained, including heavy maintenance in Asia and Middle East. I think CASA should be informed about that.

[Orville]

I here Singapore is sending their HR over to Sydney this week to hire Australians for work in Singapore. Apparantly they dont have enough staff to fullfil their needs, of an additional Heavy check, that has been quickly thrown together.

They have also said that the package they need to offer doesnt have to be too special, because the Australians are now desperate for a job.

Don't sell yourselves too cheap fellows.

And Dixon would have promised anything to keep the industrial unrest down before the Commonwealth Games. now there almost over he is showing his true colours again.

[qf 1]

stuff SIA and stuff aviation,it's time to move on to bigger and better things outside this stuffed up world of aircraft

[VTM]

Hotdog,
When are you going to get over it, just about every post you make, knocks Aust LAMEs.May I suggest you rack off and leave aircraft maintenance matters to those who know whats going on.
I have flown as an F/E in many parts of the world and make my living as a LAME, some aircraft that I work on are serviced in Asia and China and I dont like what I see.
VTM
ps send me a private email if you wish

[HotDog]

VTM, let's get something straight. First of all, I am entitled to my opinions as any one else on this forum. Secondly, I am not knocking Australian LAMEs; I am merely stating a fact that aircraft can be successfully maintained in places other than Australia by non Australian LAMEs.

[Turbo 5B]

But not as well as we do?

[domo]

Turbo any up date on spreading the cr's sydney wide
all the talk to-day

[Sunfish]

We do not yet design aircraft that synchronise with "Face". I do not wish to be part of the wreck that conclusively demonstrates this phenomenon. Ban me if you like.

[Turbo 5B]

Domo, no idea yet.There is advice coming from a Barrister as to whether or not the redundancies apply across all those covered by the Lame EBA's and not just those in Heavy.

[domo]

thanks for the update turbo

[Going Boeing]

QF is sending almost 30 LAME's to Singapore to oversee the maintenance of this B744 as they have experienced the lack of quality control at this MRO before, when they sent QF/AO B767's there for maintenance. These aircraft needed extensive rectification on return to Oz. It is expected that these LAME's will accrue plenty of overtime and they will need eyes in the back of their heads.

The aircraft is being sent to Singapore as management believe that if it was the "D" check was started in Sydney then it would never be completed. There was not enough hours left on the aircraft to delay the "D" check until the Avalon operation is up and running.

[Apophis]

Originally Posted by Going Boeing

QF is sending almost 30 LAME's to Singapore to oversee the maintenance of this B744 as they have experienced the lack of quality control at this MRO before, when they sent QF/AO B767's there for maintenance. These aircraft needed extensive rectification on return to Oz. It is expected that these LAME's will accrue plenty of overtime and they will need eyes in the back of their heads.
The aircraft is being sent to Singapore as management believe that if it was the "D" check was started in Sydney then it would never be completed. There was not enough hours left on the aircraft to delay the "D" check until the Avalon operation is up and running.

AVALON has already done D checks so what has to be up and running there already flat stick with not Enough resources.
good to see 30 fat lazy lames will get a holiday.

[Apophis]

if the lame's had any sort of back bone they would ALL refuse to go on this company sponsored junket

But they won,t they will be tripping over each other to go on this holiday.

[4SPOOLED]

Lames with no backbone?

Come on us pilots are just as bad, tripping over each other to take a paycut or in some cases fly for free!!

Everyone has their own plan and own strategy to succeed in the industry. Stop moaning about it and paying out on the lames, im sure if your job where up for retrenchment, and you had a family and mortgage, you would be taking some rather desperate actions to try and keep your job to!

Sometimes the attitude displayed on here leaves a pretty bad taste in my mouth especially when the good pilots/Lames and that have made a good contribution to aviation and have successfull careers have no need to come on here, it seems that the ones that do or have not succeeded are trying to spread untruths to turn of new generations of aviation professionals from the career.

[wing surfer]

Originally Posted by Turbo 5B

They tried KLM but KLM doesn't have CASA approval and HAECO is about to be audited by CASA because CASA has some worries.
Honestly is anyone suprised.
Is it VH OJO by any chance?

for some reason this was put into the wrong discussion thread so here it is again..............

Turbo 5B confirmed it is VH-OJO, it tis the first of many more contestants, in this case it is singapore airlines and not SASCO as others have stated, future sites are yet to be comfirmed and future A/C are also to be confirmed. allocations are keeping tight lipped about the whole thing.

you will note that the AVV site does not have the room for all the maintenance.

(surprize, surprize, surprize)

watch this space..........

[Ultralights]

Rumor has it that a 747 has already been repainted in preperation for work in Asia

[Turbo 5B]

Spirit of Asia?
It would be more believable if it said "Spirit of John Howard's Australia"

[HotDog]

Still blaming John Howard for all your ills. By the way Turbo, did you pick up your dictionary yet? I sent it to the Qantas Jet Base address you gave me a couple of weeks ago.