Originally Posted by
JetDoc
I had the manager of SFOMM on a flight recently. He said that they are short nearly 130 mechanics and company will not let him hire. It's the old do more with less philosophy and that is not good.
I am but a lowly servant to the airline industry. But this make me think the logic is: "we don't want to hire mechanics, because mechanics are union employees. Meaning they're expensive, and hard to furlough."
Rather, they just want to wait until the music stops, the economy slows, and the business shrinks to a level that the current mechanic population can support.