rumors are running rife with CASA possibbly shutting down the Qanats heavy maintenance facility at avalon,they have been given 4 weeks to fix all their problems and they are more than halfway with not to many fixes in sight,stay tuned

now u and i don't think qantas and casa are going to let little old avalon close down now-do you -not with the new Keith Clark planning office just opened.

on another note: we are hearing up in syd that there are serious problems with the first B733 AAE freighter conversion. and heads will role.

Who was running AN maintenance when it got into trouble with CASA?

alot of the same managment that are now running qantas maintenance

Has to be a wind up....

On what grounds are they threatening to close the maint facility or remove its approval to do work?

Supervision levels for a start. ie Lame ame ratios. Incident investigations not completed in timely manners.

what better excuse to move more work offshore! and the unions cant do anything about it if the regulators wont allow work to happen there

yes but management are in a real pickle because they can't find any slots in overseas MRO's,could be Ansett mark 3

Turbo

I too have heard these rumours/allegations of insufficient LAME to AME ratios but these rumblings have been going on for years and nothing ever transpired.

What has brought CASA to head now if Avalon has been operating same way since conception?

If this is true QF will be scrambling to find an MRO to do the D4 checks coming up on the first 10 of the 744 fleet.

Do you think CASA will take the blame for putting so many people out of work.

RELEASED- What are the issues CASA wants fixed?

Surely CASA works for Qantas. Qantas are bigger, and handle more money.

You might find that AVV taking over the Sydney heavys work stretched the elastic past its limit.

They didn't last time...

it's only about 800 people,about the same number as Syd H.M,big deal

Heard the same rumour here. I am to believe it's from an incident a few years ago with regard to the incorrect installation of the engine bolts on an RB211. There were recommendations or possibly enforcements to be carried out but it never materialised.......the management are looking into it was the reply. Our 'D' check left only 20 days over. It is still flying i am led to believe.

The bolts, the kruegar flaps, the lateral control system...............and who knows what else may not have been reported or investigated properly.
Only 20 days over!
Better very late than never I guess.

only 20 days,well done,lets just hope nothing was missed ah

Just imagine the tourist ministers delight when heavy maint. goes altogether. Every fokker will be flying to LAX via oz. No excuse for maint. jobs protection. But the amount of tourists jobs........low pay....no union......IR conditions.

I might have to learn how to pull beers behind a bar then.

I will have a million schooners thanks.....but none of that xxxx !!!!

CASA have a job to do and I'm thankful they are taking on Qantas as they should like any other organisation in which maintenance is not up to scratch. If the maintenance is not kosha, then provide time to improve or shut it down. Nothing wrong with that in my eyes. Jobs? Who cares about jobs when there are plane loads of people at stake?
This report about sets my opinion of recent events with Qantas. Nothing but a GA operator with big aircraft. I used to think GA had a lot of room to improve to match the standard of the airlines. I was wrong! It's easier for the airline standards to fall back to the operating requirements of GA.