Originally Posted by
anothermember
Maintenance in the US is one of the mail reasons I left. WGA used to sent the acft to Leige to run Africa and Afgan in order to get worked on properly. The Euro and Malay mechanics were great. The US ones simply sucked, that went for maintenance control in Estero. Shreveport was a joke. Every MD I took from there was a return. Neff has a large parts supply but it is all yellow tagged$$$ to green tag. But he is waiting for UPS to offer the right amount for the parts and the parts on wheels.
You know that a yellow tag is an airworthy part, and a green tag is a repairable part, right? Yellow tag doesn't mean a bad part. Yellow tag
is the good part.
Flightradar24 shows 9 of WGA's MD11's down, today. The daily average is 7. That's out of 12 airplanes. That includes airplanes in for heavy maintenance.
The apologist view is that this is just a temporary condition. Airplanes parked to bring them up to speed. If the temporary condition is every day, always has been, nothing new under the sun...it may be that it's not really temporary, after all. Kick the can down the road until it either can't move or the crew refuses to fly it/writeup won't let it move. Ops normal.