In addition BHMvictim
 

"Planes go offshore... they come back without sufficent maintenance. QF engineers uncover these defects at a later date and managment harrass them for "blowing out" the check times. Management have no understanding of what's going on because they are too busy protecting their LTI driven bonuses."

Too true, but the additional aspect is the often occuring defects as stated at the beginning of this thread that may not immediately surface post HM visit, but appear not to long after with considerable time/manpower ($$$) spent rectifying by Line Maintenance which is often unable to be recovered without considerable further effort by the guys on the floor through a verbose paperwork exercise. :ugh: :ugh: :ugh:

Invarably the outsourced MRO have nothing to answer for.:ugh:

QANTAS and external MRO's have never operated on a level playing field no matter what anyone may say. Untill outsourced maintenance uses the same safety standards that is required in Australia we can never compete economicaly with other operators. While ever we have rediculas retrictions placed on us it will always be the same. Some say it would be a return to the bad old days, but I believe the use of commonsense, which we are no longer allowed to use, would make us alot more competative than we are now.:(